• 
  David Lean

  regizor

• 
  Carl Foreman

  scenarist

• 
  William Holden

  Shears
• 
  Alec Guinness

  Colonel Nicholson
• 
  Jack Hawkins

  Warden
• 
  Sessue Hayakawa

  Colonelul Saito
• 
  Geoffrey Horne

  Lieutenant Joyce
• 
  Harold Goodwin

  Baker

• 
  Percy Herbert

  Grogan
• 
  John Boxer

  Major Hughes
• 
  M.R.B. Chakrabandhu

  Yai
• 
  James Donald

  Major Clipton
• 
  Keiichirô Katsumoto

  Lieutenant Miura
• 
  André Morell

  Colonel Green
• 
  Heihachirô Ôkawa

  Captain Kanematsu

• 
  Ann Sears

  Nurse
• 
  Peter Williams

  Captain Reeves
• 
  Tsai Chin
• 
  Christopher Greet
• 
  Herbert Nelson

• 
  Sam Spiegel

  producător
• 
  Jack Hildyard

  imagine
• 
  Peter Taylor (I)

  montaj
• 
  Malcolm Arnold

  coloană sonoră
• 
  Pierre Boulle

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