看过桂河大桥的朋友一定会记得影片开头部分，被俘的英国军人衣衫褴褛，却排着整齐的队伍用口哨吹出轻松有力的曲子。这首《波基上校进行曲》在1914年便由约翰?奥尔福特（Kenneth John Alford）作出，而在40多年后才因《桂河大桥》为大家所熟知，成为当时脍炙人口的流行曲，因此这首曲子也被称为《桂河大桥进行曲》。
精彩对白：
Colonel Nicholson: I'm adamant. I will not have an officer from my battalion working as a coolie. 尼尔森上校：我强调，我不会让我部队里的任何一位军官像一个苦力那样乾活。
Colonel Nicholson: Tomorrow it will be twenty-eight years to the day that I've been in the service. Twenty-eight years in peace and war. I don't suppose I've been at home more than ten months in all that time. Still, it's been a good life.
Colonel Nicholson: One day the war will be over. And I hope that the people that use this bridge in years to come will remember how it was built and who built it. Not a gang of slaves, but soldiers, British soldiers, Clipton, even in captivity.
Colonel Saito: A word to you about escape. There is no barbed wire. No stockade. No watchtower. They are not necessary. We are an island in the jungle. Escape is impossible. You would die.
Colonel Saito: Do not speak to me of rules. This is war! This is not a game of cricket!
斋藤上校：别跟我提规矩，这是战争！不是板球赛！
Major Clipton: Madness! Madness!
斯利普顿：疯狂！真是疯狂！
Major Shears: I'd say the odds against a successful escape are about 100 to one. But may I add another word, Colonel? The odds against survival in this camp are even worse.
