Movies starring William Holden

Biography: 
William Holden came from a wealthy family (the Beedles) that moved to Pasadena, California, when he was three. His father was an industrial chemist and his mother a teacher. In 1937, while studying chemistry at Pasadena Junior College, he was signed to a film contract by Paramount. His first starring role was as a young man torn between the violin and boxing in "Golden Boy (1939)". From then on he ...  show all 

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: William Holden | Jack Hawkins | Alec Guinness | Sessue Hayakawa | James Donald | Geoffrey Horne | André Morell | Peter Williams | John Boxer | Percy Herbert | Harold Goodwin | Ann Sears | Heihachiro Okawa | Keiichiro Katsumoto | M.R.B. Chakrabandhu
Directors: David Lean
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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.

Sabrina (1954)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Humphrey Bogart | Audrey Hepburn | William Holden | Walter Hampden | John Williams | Martha Hyer | Joan Vohs | Marcel Dalio | Marcel Hillaire | Nella Walker | Francis X. Bushman | Ellen Corby | David Ahdar | Raymond Bailey | Ralph Brooks
Directors: Billy Wilder
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Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work — busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play — technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but David hardly notices her — “doesn’t even know I exist” — until she goes away to Paris for two years, and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds that she has captured David’s attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself falling in love with Linus, and she finds that Linus is also falling in love with her.