Arizona Cardinals

Super Bowl XLII will be played in this stadium. See also AZON. This stadium, which will feature a retractable roof and a slide-out grass surface, is scheduled to open for the 2006 season. The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The team has started construction on a new stadium in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale. At about the same time a new release of the film finally gave them proper screen credit. Since the move to the Phoenix area in 1988, the Cardinals have made the playoffs only once (1998, where they defeated the Dallas Cowboys in the wild-card round) and have had one of the worst attendance records in the NFL year-after-year, consistently. Only in 1984 did the Academy rectify the situation by awarding the Oscar to Foreman and Wilson retrospectively (and posthumously in both cases, although Foreman did live long enough to know that it was going to happen).

Louis when owner Bill Bidwill was unable to convince the city to build a new stadium. Pierre Boulle, who did not speak English, was given screen credit for adapting his own novel, and the Oscar was awarded to him. They left St.
The screenwriters, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, were on the Hollywood blacklist and could only work secretly. Sports fans and local news coverage got into the habit of calling them "the football Cardinals" or "the baseball Cardinals" to distinguish the two.
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Between 1960 and 1987, St. One memorable feature of the movie is the tune that is whistled by the POW's—the "Colonel Bogey March"—and is now widely associated with the movie, and even sometimes referred to as the "River Kwai March." Besides serving as an example of British fortitude and dignity in the face of privation, it suggested (whether or not intended by the screenwriters) a specific symbol of defiance to many movie-goers of the period: WW II veterans (and many of their baby-boom sons) thought of the tune as that of a mockery of Japan's principal ally. The Cardinals won their only NFL championship game in 1947 with their "dream backfield" which included quarterback Paul Christman and halfback Charlie Trippi. (Buster Keaton's The General includes an almost identical scene.). In 1944, owing to player shortages caused by World War II, the Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers merged for one year and were known as the "Card-Pitts", or "Carpets". The destruction of the bridge in the film was accomplished by blowing up a full-sized bridge as a real train drove over it. This may have been the first time such a scene had been attempted without model shots since the silent film era. Louis. The steel bridge has been repaired and is still in use.

As the "Chicago Racine Cardinals" and then as the "Chicago Cardinals", they entered the NFL and fought with the crosstown rival Chicago Bears for years before moving to St. In reality, a parallel steel bridge was added a few months after the wooden bridge was completed, and both were destroyed by Allied aerial bombing, the steel bridge first. They were often confused with Racine, Wisconsin, by fans in other cities.
The plot of the film is built around a fictional destruction of the wooden bridge by prisoner sabotage. Located on Racine Avenue in Chicago, they became known for a while as the "Racine Cardinals".
. They began to field a pro team even before the founding of the NFL. About a hundred thousand conscripted Asian labourers and 16,000 prisoners of war died on the whole project, which was nicknamed the Death Railway.

The Cardinals are the oldest existing football club in the United States, beginning as an amateur athletic club team in Chicago named the Morgan Athletic Club. This was part of a project to link existing Thai and Burmese railway lines to create a route from Bangkok, Thailand to Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar) to support the Japanese occupation of Burma. The Arizona Cardinals are a National Football League team based in Tempe, Arizona. The story is based on a real event, the building in 1942 of a railway bridge over the Mae Klong (not the Kwai) in the Thai town of Kanchanaburi. 99 Marshall Goldberg. It was filmed in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and England. Cain. An Anglo-American film in English based on the book appeared in 1957 and the name was changed slightly, to The Bridge on the River Kwai. The film portrays a group of British captives in a Japanese POW camp forced to build a railway bridge spanning the River Kwai in Thailand.

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Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai (The Bridge over the River Kwai) is a novel by Pierre Boulle, published in 1954, that won France's "Prix Ste Beuve." It dramatizes the plight of Allied prisoners of war during World War II forced to build the 258-mile Death Railway by Japanese forces. 77 Stan Maudlin. Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album, Dramatic Picture Score or Original Cast (Malcolm Arnold). 40 Pat Tillman. Golden Globe Award Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Sessue Hayakawa). 8 Larry Wilson. Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Sessue Hayakawa).

Emmitt Smith. Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - Pierre Boulle - Carl Foreman - Michael Wilson. Aeneas Williams. Academy Award for Original Music Score - Malcolm Arnold. Tom Tupa. Academy Award for Film Editing - Peter Taylor. Pat Tillman. Academy Award for Best Cinematography - Jack Hildyard.

Eric Swann. New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Actor (Alec Guinness). Jackie Smith. Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama (Alec Guinness). Smith. Academy Award for Best Actor (Alec Guinness). J.T. New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Director (David Lean).

Simeon Rice. Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture (David Lean). Ricky Proehl. Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (David Lean, Assistants: Gus Agosti & Ted Sturgis). Jake Plummer. Academy Award for Directing (David Lean). Rob Moore. New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Film.

Jamir Miller. Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama. Tim McDonald. BAFTA Award for Best Picture. Neil Lomax. Academy Award for Best Picture. Garrison Hearst. M.R.B. Chakrabandhu  : Yai.

Ken Harvey. Miura. Jim Hart. Keiichiro Katsumoto  : Lt. Roy Green. Kanematsu. Boomer Esiason. Heihachiro Okawa  : Capt.

Larry Centers. Ann Sears  : Nurse at Ceylon hospital. Jim Bakken. Baker. Antrel Rolle. Harold Goodwin  : Pvt. Leonard Davis. Percy Herbert  : Pvt. Grogan.

Scott Player. John Boxer  : Maj. Hughes. Duane Starks. Green. Bertrand Berry. André Morell  : Col. Adrian Wilson. Reeves.

Kurt Warner. Peter Williams  : Capt. Marcel Shipp. Geoffrey Horne  : Lt. Joyce. Larry Fitzgerald. Clipton. Josh McCown. James Donald  : Maj.

Anquan Boldin. Warden. Larry Wilson. Jack Hawkins  : Maj. Charley Trippi. William Holden  : Shears. Dan Dierdorf. Saito.

Sessue Hayakawa  : Col. Alec Guinness  : Colonel Nicholson.