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id="bodyContent" class="mw-body-content"> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> <div id="contentSub"></div> <div id="jump-to-nav"></div> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#mw-head">Jump to navigation</a> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#p-search">Jump to search</a> <div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div class="mw-parser-output"><table class="infobox vevent" style="width:22em;font-size:90%;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="summary" style="text-align:center;font-size:125%;font-weight:bold;font-size:110%;font-style:italic;">Return from the River Kwai</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Directed by</th><td><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McLaglen" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew McLaglen">Andrew McLaglen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Produced by</th><td>Kurt Unger</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Screenplay by</th><td>Sargon Tamimi<br/><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mayersberg" title="Paul Mayersberg">Paul Mayersberg</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Based on</th><td><i>Return from the River Kwai</i><br/>by Joan & Clay Blair Jr.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Starring</th><td><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fox_(actor)" title="Edward Fox (actor)">Edward Fox</a><br/><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Penn" title="Chris Penn">Chris Penn</a><br/><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denholm_Elliott" title="Denholm Elliott">Denholm Elliott</a><br/><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Bottoms" title="Timothy Bottoms">Timothy Bottoms</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Music by</th><td><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalo_Schifrin" title="Lalo Schifrin">Lalo Schifrin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td>Arthur Wooster</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Edited by</th><td>Alan Strachan</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="padding:0.1em 0;line-height:1.2em;">Production<br/>company </div></th><td><div style="vertical-align:middle;">Roadshow Productions<br/>Screenlife Establishments </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank_Film_Distributors" class="mw-redirect" title="Rank Film Distributors">Rank Film Distributors</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(UK)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="padding:0.1em 0;line-height:1.2em;white-space:normal;">Release date</div></th><td><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>7 April 1989<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1989-04-07</span>)</span> (UK)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="padding:0.1em 0;line-height:1.2em;white-space:normal;">Running time</div></th><td>107 min.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Country</th><td>United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Language</th><td>English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Budget</th><td>$15 million<sup id="cite_ref-los_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-los-1">[1]</a></sup> or £6.7 million<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-2">[2]</a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Box office</th><td>$5 million<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-2">[2]</a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Return from the River Kwai</b></i> is a 1989 British film directed by <a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McLaglen" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew McLaglen">Andrew McLaglen</a> and starring <a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fox_(actor)" title="Edward Fox (actor)">Edward Fox</a>, <a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Penn" title="Chris Penn">Chris Penn</a> and <a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Bottoms" title="Timothy Bottoms">Timothy Bottoms</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> </p><p>It is not a sequel to <i><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai" class="mw-redirect" title="Bridge on the River Kwai">Bridge on the River Kwai</a></i> (1957), although it deals with POWS of the Japanese in World War Two. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"/><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2>Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Cast"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Cast</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Production"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Production</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Legal_problems"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Legal problems</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Box_office"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Box office</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Cast">Cast</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Return_from_the_River_Kwai&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Cast">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fox_(actor)" title="Edward Fox (actor)">Edward Fox</a> as Major Benford</li> <li><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Penn" title="Chris Penn">Chris Penn</a> as Lieutenant Crawford</li> <li><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denholm_Elliott" title="Denholm Elliott">Denholm Elliott</a> as Colonel Grayson</li> <li><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Bottoms" title="Timothy Bottoms">Timothy Bottoms</a> as Seaman Miller</li> <li><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuya_Nakadai" title="Tatsuya Nakadai">Tatsuya Nakadai</a> as Major Harada</li> <li><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei" title="George Takei">George Takei</a> as Lieutenant Tanaka</li> <li><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Tate" title="Nick Tate">Nick Tate</a> as Lt. Commander Hunt</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Production">Production</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Return_from_the_River_Kwai&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Production">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The film is based on a 1979 factual book with the same name about a 1944 Japanese prisoner transport of 2,217 British and Australian POWs, who had been working as forced labour on the <a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Railway" title="Burma Railway">Burma Railway</a>, building the <a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Railway#The_bridge_on_the_River_Khwae" title="Burma Railway">bridge over the River Kwai</a>. They were taken by railway to <a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>, and from there aboard two ships, <a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Rakuyo_Maru" class="mw-redirect" title="SS Rakuyo Maru"><i>Rakuyo Maru</i></a> and <i><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kachidoki_Maru" title="SS Kachidoki Maru">Kachidoki Maru</a></i>, destined for Japan. On 12 September 1944, both ships were torpedoed by US submarines, and 1,559 of the prisoners perished.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> </p><p>Film rights were bought by Karl Unger. In 1986 <a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tri_Star&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tri Star (page does not exist)">Tri Star</a> agreed to release in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-guardian_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-2">[2]</a></sup> </p><p>Unger said the film was not a sequel. "It is a story that stands completely on its own, and it is a factual story," he said. "The event is not known in America. It is known in the Pentagon, but not by the general public."<sup id="cite_ref-los_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-los-1">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>The words "river Kwai" were not mentioned in the film and the river only appeared at the beginning. The bulk of the story concerned what happened to the POWS after the railway was built.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-2">[2]</a></sup> </p><p>The film was shot in 1988 in the Philippines. According to Unger, "Everyone said, `The Philippines? Are you crazy? They're throwing bombs over there. You can't make movies there'." <sup id="cite_ref-los_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-los-1">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>Unger did consider filming somewhere else but said he did not he would have "gotten the kind of infrastructure we did here.... Eighty percent of what we needed was already here. We needed World War II ships, and the Philippine Navy is still using them. We needed a harbor that looks like Saigon in the 1940s. Manila Bay was perfect. We needed World War II planes, and the Philippine Air Force is still using Japanese Zeros as training planes."<sup id="cite_ref-los_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-los-1">[1]</a></sup> Unger added, "The other 20% we built ourselves, and we built our own studio in a warehouse in the suburbs.""<sup id="cite_ref-los_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-los-1">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>In the final event, filming proceeded relatively smoothly.<sup id="cite_ref-los_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-los-1">[1]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Legal_problems">Legal problems</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Return_from_the_River_Kwai&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Legal problems">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>In 1988 Tri Star's parent company, Columbia, was bought out by Sony. They pulled out of the distribution contract to release the film in the US. Columbia claimed that this was because the estate of <a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spiegel" title="Sam Spiegel">Sam Spiegel</a> had threatened legal action over the film's title, thus breaching the contract. Unger argued that the rights had been bought by Columbia from the Spiegel estate in 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-2">[2]</a></sup> </p><p>Unger claimed he offered to change the film's name and attached a disclaimer denying any connection with the Spiegel film. (When released in the United Kingdom, the film carried a disclaimer that it was not related to or a sequel to the 1957 film.)<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-2">[2]</a></sup> </p><p>Unger says he suggested the name "River Kwai" be translated into Thai ("Kwae Noi") and Tri-Star agreed, then changed their mind. Unger claims Tri-Star's decision not to distribute was motivated by the film's anti-Japanese content, which he says offended Sony, its parent company. The producer asked, "What other reason could there be in view of what has happened, when it has happened and the refusal to distribute under a different name a film that was to cost them nothing?"<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-2">[2]</a></sup> </p><p>Unger says the decision cost him a minimum of $5 million in earnings from cable, video and cinema in the US market, and meant the film was unprofitable.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-2">[2]</a></sup> </p><p>The case went to trial in 1997. Columbia argued that "if you use a name and it becomes famous you are able to use it in a certain area of commerce, such as the exclusive use of River Kwai in the title of a film. It does not matter where Pierre Boulle got the name."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> </p><p>In 1998 a court ruled that the title suggested the film implied it was a sequel to <i>Bridge on the River Kwai</i>. It was never released in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Box_office">Box office</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Return_from_the_River_Kwai&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Box office">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Under said the film took $5 million worldwide outside the US.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-2">[2]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20190624214349/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Return_from_the_River_Kwai&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="reflist" style="list-style-type: decimal;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-los-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-los_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-los_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-los_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-los_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-los_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-los_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">This Jungle for Hire: Political Unrest Hasn't Stopped Some From Filming in Philippines Fineman, Mark. 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