Editing The Bridge on the River Kwai (section)

===Box office===
[[File:The Bridge on the River Kwai (1958 US poster - Style B).jpg|thumb|American theatrical release poster, "Style B", featuring Holden.]]

''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' was a massive commercial success. It was [[1957 in film|the highest-grossing film of 1957 in the United States and Canada]] and was also the most popular film at the British box office that year.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Bridge on the River Kwai|date=28 November 2004|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/chart/details.php?ranking=33|access-date=24 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803005900/http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/chart/details.php?ranking=33|archive-date=3 August 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> According to ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', the film earned estimated domestic box office revenues of $18,000,000<ref name="Cobbett23">{{cite book |last1=Steinberg |first1=Cobbett |title=Film Facts |year=1980 |publisher=Facts on File, Inc. |location=New York |isbn=0-87196-313-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/filmfacts00cobb_mc3/page/23 23] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/filmfacts00cobb_mc3/page/23 }} When a film is released late in a calendar year (October to December), its income is reported in the following year's compendium, unless the film made a particularly fast impact. Figures are domestic earnings (United States and Canada) as reported each year in ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' (p. 17).</ref> although this was revised downwards the following year to $15,000,000, which was still the biggest for 1958 and Columbia's highest-grossing film at the time.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=All-Time Top Grosses|date=4 January 1961|page=49|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety221-1961-01#page/n48/mode/1up|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> By October 1960, the film had earned worldwide box office revenues of $30 million.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=Once-Stupendous-Now-Modest $2,700,000 Budget Kept Secret; 'River Kwai's' Sockfull Gross|date=19 October 1960|page=3|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety220-1960-10#page/n162/mode/1up|access-date=23 April 2019}}</ref>

The film was re-released in 1964 and earned a further estimated $2.6 million at the box office in the United States and Canada<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=Big Grossing Pictures of 1964|date=6 January 1965|page=39}}</ref> but the following year its revised total US and Canadian revenues were reported by ''Variety'' as $17,195,000.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=All-Time Top Grossers|date=5 January 1966|page=6}}</ref>