THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWEER

BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
dir:David Lean

Cracked # 2, May 1958
a: John Severin

Included just because of the footnote on the first page.

Bonus: Also a parody of teeth. Cracked was ahead of its time, in 1958 they had the nerve to take on teeth and show them for what they really are. Take that, teeth!

The other movies mentioned here also came out that year and they are Sayonara, Les Girls, Bonjour Tristesse,either The Proud and the Profane or The Pride and the Passion, I'm not sure what More Men is, My Gun Is Quick, A Hatful of Rain, Don't Go Near the Water, 12 Angry Men, Raintree County, The Joker Is Wild, A Farewell to Arms, Written on the Wind, The Story of Mankind, not sure if Frankenstein Meets Goldstein or Cochise, Son of Potcheese are supposed to be anything, Old Yeller, and Gunfight at the O. K. Corral. I've seen seven. How many have you seen?

Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guiness) is the leader of an American batallion in a Japanese POW camp in Burma during World War II. They meet Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa).

They are ordered to work on a bridge from Burma to Thailand but initially object since Geneva codes forbid manual labor of prisoners.

Another troop led by Maj. Shears (William Holden), Maj. Warden (Jack Hawkins), and Lt. Joyce (Geoffrey Horne) has been ordered to blow up the bridge.

From Scenes We Never Got to See by Albert Meglin and Wallace Wood in MAD #42, November 1958