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arouse sympathy, without becoming too painful for comfort. The war episodes, involving
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he is sent into the field as an interrogator. Later he is captured by the
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Ralph Thomas later said he thought Sir John Davis of Rank "very bravely" authorised location-filming in India "because he trusted David Lean's judgement that it was a splendid book. It was a real three-handkerchief picture, which I thoroughly enjoyed making, and Dirk was very good in it."
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166:115 minutes
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