Rating: NR
Genre:
War
Release Date: 10/23/2001
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French/Por/TH/KO
Dubbed: English/Espanol/French/Por
Sound: DD
Run Time: 118 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
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
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An Oscar-Winning Adult War Drama.
Filmed on location in Honolulu and at Pearl Harbor where the attack originated, this Oscar-winning war drama is based on James Jones' novel set in pre-World War II Hawaii. Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift head an all-star cast in a story about the illicit affair between a U.S. army sergeant (Lancaster) and the base commander's beautiful wife (Deborah Kerr) just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, a Best Director Oscar for Fred Zinneman, and Best Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress Oscars for Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed, and Best Film Editing. Also starring Ernest Borgnine, Jack Warden, Phillip Ober, Mickey Shaughnessy, George Reeves, Claude Akins, Joan Shawlee, Merle Travis, Robert Karnes, John Dennis, Mary Carver, Douglas Henderson, Robert J. Wilke, and Carleton Young. Aloha!
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