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The first ever (officially recorded) foreign film shot on location in Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was then known) was Carol Reed’s “Outcast of the Islands” (1951). Six years later, Sir David Lean chose Sri Lanka to shoot his 1957 Oscar winning movie ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ with Sir Alec Guinness in the lead more films and tele-series down the line …. John Derek shot “Tarzan the Ape Man” (1981) in Sri Lanka with his wife Bo Derek in the lead. …