The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones' acclaimed war novel From Here to Eternity brought the aspirations and frustrations of several people sharply into focus. Sergeant Milt Warden (Burt Lancaster) enters into an affair with Karen (Deborah Kerr).. Read more
| Starring | Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra |
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| Director | Fred Zinnemann |
| Genres | Drama |
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The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones' acclaimed war novel From Here to Eternity brought the aspirations and frustrations of several people sharply into focus. Sergeant Milt Warden (Burt Lancaster) enters into an affair with Karen (Deborah Kerr), the wife of his commanding officer. Private Robert E. Lee Prew Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is a loner who lives by his own code of ethics and communicates better with his bugle than he does with words. Prew's best friend is wisecracking Maggio (Frank Sinatra, in an Oscar-winning performance that revived his flagging career), who has been targeted for persecution by sadistic stockade sergeant Fatso Judson (Ernest Borgnine). Rounding out the principals is Alma Lorene (Donna Reed), a hostess at the euphemistically named whorehouse The New Congress Club. All these melodramatic joys and sufferings are swept away by the Japanese attack on the morning of December 7. No words could do justice to the film's most famous scene: the nocturnal romantic rendezvous on the beach, with Burt Lancaster's and Deborah Kerr's bodies intertwining as the waves crash over them. If you're able to take your eyes off the principals for a moment or two, keep an eye out for George Reeves; his supporting role was shaved down when, during previews, audiences yelled There's Superman! and began to laugh. From Here to Eternity won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and supporting awards to Sinatra and Reed.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
| 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 |  |
| Collections | American Film Institute's top 100, Best Picture Oscar Winners |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | Production year: 1953 To Rent: DVD: 14 Jan 2002 |
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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Over-rated and bordering on tedious
I watch this film from time to time to see if I can make more of it than I have done for 50 years. After all, it won 8 out of the 13 Oscars for which it was ... read more »
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A deserved success
While all the Oscars awarded were probably largely to do with residual patriotic fervour after world war 2, I still rate this film highly. Burt Lancaster was ... read more »
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One of the Screen's Classic Films
Truly a classic of American cinema, with a plot that wouldn't have looked out of place in a film from a much later period in film history. The acting is ... read more »
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Over-rated and bordering on tedious
I watch this film from time to time to see if I can make more of it than I have done for 50 years. After all, it won 8 out of the 13 Oscars for which it was ... read more »
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Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr's kiss in the surf in From Here To Eternity has come top in a poll of the most memorable screen kisses of all time. The chemistry between the two in the 1953 film managed to push the kiss between Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire in 2002's Spiderman into second place. Roughly 3,000 movie fans were polled by cosmetic dentists Glee in London. George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn's passionate kiss in the rain at the end of the 1961 hit Breakfast At Tiffany's was named as Read more
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