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* [[Finagle's Law]]
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: The bridge construction plan versus the demolition plan.
* [[Got Volunteered]]: When Shears refuses to serve as a guide for the commando team, he is told that the US Navy has already ordered him given to them. When Shears makes the excuse that he wasn't really a commander he is told that the British had already looked that up, and made sure he [[Got Volunteered]] in his proper identity.
* [[Holiday in Cambodia]]
* [[Hollywood History]]: Among survivors of the construction of the Burma-Siam railway, there is often a lot of bitterness directed towards this film, as [[Real Life]] conditions were ''much'' worse, with 13,000 POWs and 100,000 civilians dying in its construction. The filmmakers felt depicting conditions as harsh as they actually were would be too depressing for filmgoers.
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* [[Kavorka Man]]: Shears, it seems.
* [[Knight Templar]]: Saito and Warden are too concerned with doing their job to the point of hurting their comrades, though Saito at least has the excuse that he would have to commit ritual suicide if he failed.
**To Warden's credit he is as willing to treat himself as a pawn as his comrades. To the point of ordering himself left behind to rot in the jungle.
* {{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All]]}}
* [[Know When to Fold'Em]]: Averted. Nicholson refuses to compromise his obedience to the letter of the Geneva Conventions (the Hague Convention and Nuremberg Principles also apply) and this results in two negative outcomes. First, the rations are reduced for all the prisoners. Second, he insists on building a superior bridge because of his [[Seven Deadly Sins|pride]] and the requirement that prisoners can be forced to work.
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