Charnier""s Friendship with French TV Star Devereaux:Back in Marseilles, France, Charnier takes a motorboat out to a large, highly-fortified, offshore island fortress known as Château d""If for a secret meeting with his assassin Nicoli, who confirms the job of killing the undercover detective as an "ugly job.It again reteams Scorsese with his favorite actor, Robert De Niro, who had appeared inMean Streets (1973),Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977),Raging Bull (1980),andThe King of Comedy (1982).Today, the steel/concrete bridge has been rebuilt and is used by passenger trains - the river was renamed Kwae Yai (""Big Kwae"") to accommodate tourists searching for the bridge from the film.Clyde (Harry Lewis), now a leather-jacketed town sheriff and married man with one son, has followed in his father""s footsteps.The severe editing was completed by Joe Farnham and June Mathis, Goldwyn""s story editor, who hadn""t read either the book or he screenplay.