After exploding the lock (with stolen shells filled with gunpowder), McGregor and Forsythe commandeer a machine gun, open fire and shoot down some of the rebels in the stronghold""s inner courtyard.They always hold their meetings in the mansion because, as Cobb astutely points out: "Why do mice go where there""s cheese?" The board""s spokesman is Douglas (Edwin Maxwell) and to Deeds"" surprise, he has been elected to preside as the director, or chairman of the opera house.[In the play, Maggie had allegedly seduced Skipper, an instance of heterosexual infidelity - to keep theirhomosexualrelationship at bay - an important plot element missing in the film.In reality, the actual bridge for the Burma Railway - depicted in the film - spanned the Mae Khlung River, not the Kwai River.