From Here to Eternity

starring: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
directed by: Fred Zinnemann

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780800178833
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0800178831
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Model: 9531
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 23, 2001
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 5320
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1953

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An award-winning drama about a close-knit army camp in hawaii before the attack on pearl harbor. Superb cast and performances by all netting 8 oscars including best picture. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/06/2007 Starring: Burt Lancaster Montgomery Clift Run time: 118 minutes Rating: Nr

Amazon.com essential video:
Here's a model for adapting a novel into a movie. The bestseller by James Jones, a frank and hard-hitting look at military life, could not possibly be made into a film in 1953 without considerably altering its length and bold subject matter. Yet screenwriter Daniel Taradash and director Fred Zinnemann (both of whom won Oscars for their work) pared it down and cleaned it up, without losing the essential texture of Jones's tapestry. The setting is an army base in Hawaii in 1941. Montgomery Clift, in a superb performance, plays a bugler who refuses to fight for the company boxing team; he has reasons for giving up the sport. His refusal results in harsh treatment from the company commander, whose bored wife (Deborah Kerr) is having an affair with the tough-but-fair sergeant (Burt Lancaster). You remember--the scene with the two of them embracing on the beach, as the surf crashes in. The supporting players are as good as the leads: Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed won Oscars (and Sinatra revitalized his entire career), and Ernest Borgnine entered the gallery of all-time movie villains, as the stockade sergeant who makes Sinatra miserable. Zinnemann's work is efficient but also evocative, capturing the time and place beautifully, the tropical breezes as well as the lazy prewar indulgence. This one is deservedly a classic. --Robert Horton

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- From Here to a Classic
From Here to Eternity is more than the classic scene of Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster rolling around ... Read More

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- Doesn't hold up well with time
Seeing this movie again after 50 years I felt a certain disappointment. There were just too many difficulties ... Read More

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- An All-Time Great but Too Bad About the DVD!
This is an all-time great film for many reasons and should be in any film buff's dvd library. The screenplay is ... Read More

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- Fine Film about Military Life on the Cusp of WWII
Wow. I saw this last night on TCM for the first time. I really wish I'd taken the time to see this movie earlier. ... Read More

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- The best movie I ever saw
All I can remember of the movie from 1954/1955 was that it was the best movie I had ever seen. Well, being about 13 ... Read More

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