Pierre Boulle
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1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. Pitted against the warden, Colonel Saito, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy. While on the outside, as the Allies race to destroy the bridge,...
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An astronaut gets thrown through a portal and into the future. When he lands on the ape planet, he finds a subterranean world where highly advanced humans live in New York City's former subway system in fear of militaristic gorillas and worship a weapon capable of detroying the entire planet.