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From Here To Eternity
1953
An all-star cast brought what was considered an unfilmable James Jones novel to the screen with skill and grace. The story involves the loves, hopes, and dreams of those in a close-knit army barracks in Hawaii shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Montgomery Clift portrays a former boxer who refuses to fight after blinding .. Read more
| Starring | Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra |
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| Director | Fred Zinnemann |
| Genres | Drama |
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From Here To Eternity
An all-star cast brought what was considered an unfilmable James Jones novel to the screen with skill and grace. The story involves the loves, hopes, and dreams of those in a close-knit army barracks in Hawaii shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Montgomery Clift portrays a former boxer who refuses to fight after blinding a friend in the ring and is sent to the remote outpost as punishment for his insubordination. Love and tragedy abound in this unflattering look at American military life before the war. Fred Zinneman's sweeping film also stars Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, and Frank Sinatra.
| Starring | Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Mickey Shaughnessy, Jack Warden, Philip Ober |
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| Director | Fred Zinnemann |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 54 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 14 Jan 2002 Production year: 1953 |
| Format | DVD |
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James Jones's bestseller was thought to be unfilmable — too sexy and too anti-militaristic for a start — but, as written by Daniel Taradash and directed by Fred Zinnemann, it became a classic and a box-office smash, nominated for 13 Oscars and winning eight of them. Set in the run-up to and during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it deals with life in the American forces overseas — the sexually predatory sergeant (Burt Lancaster), the frustrated wife (Deborah Kerr), the peace-loving bugler (Montgomery Clift), the persecuted Italian GI (Frank Sinatra) and the sadistic stockade sergeant (Ernest Borgnine). Lancaster and Kerr's embrace in the pounding surf gained instant fame, while Sinatra put up a noisy campaign to win the role against the wishes of studio boss Harry Cohn.
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Cleaned up and streamlined version of a bestseller in which the mainly sexual frustrations of a number of unattractive characters are laid bare. As a production, it is Hollywood in good form, and certainly took the public fancy as well as establishing Sin
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Fatso Judson
Sinatra got his role as Maggio in this due to his adlibbed screen test. Down in the dumps for years after Columbia cancelled his recording contract, Sinatra read the script and saw Maggio as himself--a scrapy, small American Italian. During the test, his character walks up to the bar drunk. He's gone AWOL when forced to pull guard duty on a rare night out and runs into some other GIs. Maggio stumbles up to the bar, talks, and tells everyone how bad his luck is. During the test, he grabbed to martini olives and threw them on the bar top like dice: 'Snake eyes, every time.' The adlib was so good that he not only got the part but they kept the test in the final cut.
Sinatra was also known to make martinis in his trailer between shoots when Lancaster and Borgnine would frequently drop by.
A classic by all means that captures much of the American ethos during a period of time where the USA felt independent of world affairs. Insolence, youth, and American bravado all come to a head in the tragedy of September 11th...err I mean, Decemeber 7th. -
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
ONE OF THE BEST OLD ONES
Set at the time of the Pearl Harbour attack this isn't really a war movie, it is a story of a close-knit community within the forces, clashes of personalities and of course the touching love stories (ladies will love it). Brilliantly acted by the whole cast and although filmed in black and white it somehow fits the era. My late husband (ex military) always said he never heard the 'Last Post' played better or with such feeling as in this film.
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