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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).. Read more

Starring	Mickey Shaughnessy, Jack Warden, Philip Ober, Burt Lancaster
Director	Fred Zinnemann
Genres	Drama

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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
- 31197
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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  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 more »
  
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  - Lord Pie
  - Canterbury, England
  - 06 Nov 2004 at 22:17
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  - 2
  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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- - v0lterra
  - 9 reviews
  - Reading
  - 14 Dec 2011 at 22:00
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  - 8
  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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- - Cato
  - 589 reviews
  - Lydbury North
  - 11 Nov 2011 at 12:07
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  - 26
  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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- - roncoach
  - 263 reviews
  - suffolk
  - 20 Oct 2011 at 01:22
- - 1
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  Uniforms / Surf shirts / Booze
  
  Fascinating film. Can see why it won 8 Oscsars. Its a great story. Strange what lingers in the mind though - the uniforms with the ties tucked in high up the ... read more »
  
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- - 5ft7offootballheaven
  - 231 reviews
  - London
  - 19 Feb 2011 at 18:09
- - 0
  - 4
  From Here To Eternity
  
  What a brilliant movie. Well acted with a good story/ They should remake this film using modern gay techniques.
  
  Although old, it's well worth a ... read more »
  
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- - Emjay69
  - 320 reviews
  - Kidlington, Oxford
  - 22 Dec 2010 at 14:39
- - 0
  - 0
  From Here to Eternity
  
  A very enjoyable film.
  
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- - Miriam
  - Ealing, London
  - 14 Nov 2010 at 22:48
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  from here to eternity
  
  Perhaps not quite worthy of a lot of the adulation its received over the years but still and interesting film to watch with great performances from the 3 lead ... read more »
  
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  - edinburgh
  - 20 Apr 2010 at 15:26
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  classic
  
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  The story of a group of people just before Pearl Hrbour,adapted from the novel of the same name,by James Jones is filmed in black and white.Well acted and ... read more »
  
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- - duke51
  - 142 reviews
  - Peterlee
  - 18 Mar 2009 at 16:54
- - 1
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  Worth it for historic pearl harbour
  
  Bit of a strange film but am glad I saw it and of course the beach love scene was something else.
  
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- - LEM
  - 23 reviews
  - Edinburgh
  - 15 Nov 2008 at 22:03
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  Great Stars
  
  This will keep you glued for the whole film, when you have seen it, watch it again.
  
  GREAT. This is a classic
  
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  - Joby
  - 82 reviews
  - Uckfield
  - 03 Aug 2008 at 10:37
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- - 11
  - 5
  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 more »
  
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  - Lord Pie
  - Canterbury, England
  - 06 Nov 2004 at 22:17
- - 5
  - 2
  boring
  
  yawn yawn and more yawn. don't bother watching this film unless you need sending to sleep. kept waiting for something to happen, it never did.
  
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  - chichester sussex
  - 02 Apr 2007 at 17:11
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  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 ... read more »
  
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  - Dorset,, England
  - 06 Jul 2005 at 13:56
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  One to watch together
  
  An all time classic loved by the old, or should I say the young aswell. My wife and I sat and watched this and as you can expect she was in tears, but I can`t ... read more »
  
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- - wolverine1
  - Southlanarkshire
  - 10 Jan 2004 at 22:50
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  Worth it for historic pearl harbour
  
  Bit of a strange film but am glad I saw it and of course the beach love scene was something else.
  
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- - LEM
  - 23 reviews
  - Edinburgh
  - 15 Nov 2008 at 22:03
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  from here to eternity
  
  Perhaps not quite worthy of a lot of the adulation its received over the years but still and interesting film to watch with great performances from the 3 lead ... read more »
  
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  - edinburgh
  - 20 Apr 2010 at 15:26
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  not sure...
  
  good actors, legendary scenes, but not sure why it has been so acclamed...
  
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  - england
  - 12 Mar 2004 at 00:29
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  If you want to watch a...
  
  If you want to watch a film where everyone dies or is left miserable then this is the film for you. I struggled to watch it through to the end thinking that ... read more »
  
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  - NEWTOWNARDS
  - 19 Apr 2004 at 09:12
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  Very enjoyable with great performances
  
  This is another film that I had heard so much about and had not seen in my time on this earth to date. It tells the story of a army company in Haiwaii in the ... read more »
  
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- - Welshwaspy
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  - London
  - 07 Mar 2005 at 09:58
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  Eternity
  
  It's 1941. Robert E Lee has requested army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. His new Captain, Dana Holmes, has heard of his boxing prowess ... read more »
  
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- - Gavin O'Donnell
  - Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
  - 26 Mar 2007 at 19:07

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Critics' reviews
- 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
- 31197
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
- Bowdlerised version of James Jones' novel about physical passion, jealousy and anti-semitism in a Honolulu barracks... read more on Time Out
- 44414
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:14

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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 ...