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Some of the music is plagerized.


Don't get me wrong. I love this movie, but the marching song played during the chase scene at the end is the same melody as a song from Bridge on the River Kwai. Watch it, then watch the scene in Kwai where Col. Nicholson gets released from the stockade and all the men are giving him a victory parade.

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Back then, that song was ubiquitous. It wasn't just the march from Bridge Over the River Kwai, or Col. Bogie's March, but was in commercials, and used in the background of lots of things, as well as being hummed and whistled. So it wasn't plagiarized so much as borrowed. Besides, I think it may have been an actual British marching time that David Lean borrowed, not composed for the movie.

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The Colonel Bogey March was composed in 1914 by British military officer F. J. Ricketts.

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You're usually on thin ice when you think you've found the first version of any music.

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This music is definitely NOT the famous "Colonel Bogey March" part of which was utilized prominently in the film "The Bridge On The River Kwai". It isn't even similar.

The "Colonel Bogey March" was in fact an original composition (ca 1913) by the British composer and soldier Kenneth Alford (whose given name was Frederick Joseph Ricketts). The complete work has substantially more music than its main theme which is whistled by the marching British soldiers in "...Kwai).

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