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From Here to Eternity
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From Here to Eternity is a 1953 American black-and-white film directed by Fred Zinnemann and produced by Buddy Adler. The screenplay was written by Daniel Taradash, with music by George Duning and cinematography by Burnett Guffey. The cast includes Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine, Deborah Kerr, and Burt Lancaster. The production company was Columbia Pictures, which also distributed the film, while Netflix is listed as a distributor.
The drama, romance, and war film is set in Hawaii and centers on the Attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. Filming took place in Honolulu, and the narrative location is Hawaii. The movie has a runtime of 118 minutes and was released on August 28, 1953. It was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. It won the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director.
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7.3In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Cast
- Burt Lancaster as 1st Sgt. Milton Warden
- Montgomery Clift as Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
- Deborah Kerr as Karen Holmes
- Donna Reed as Alma 'Lorene' Burke
- Frank Sinatra as Pvt. Angelo Maggio
- Philip Ober as Capt. Dana Holmes
Themes
- beach
- based on novel or book
- hawaii
- world war ii
- harassment
- pearl harbor
- military base
- black and white
- bombing
- extramarital affair
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- From Here to Eternity
- Main subject
- World War II
- Director
- Fred Zinnemann
- Screenwriter
- Daniel Taradash
- Cast member
- Tim Ryan
- Composer
- George Duning
- Producer
- Buddy Adler
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Burnett Guffey
- Narrative location
- Hawaii
- Filming location
- Honolulu
- Duration
- 118
- FilmAffinity ID
- 555169
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity trailer.jpg
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- Commons category
- From Here to Eternity (film)
- publication date
- 1953-00-00
- film editor
- William Lyon
- title
- From Here to Eternity
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Sound
- production designer
- Cary Odell
- distributed by
- Netflix
- color
- black-and-white
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- different from
- From Here to Eternity
- review score
- 88%
- costume designer
- Jean Louis
- date of first performance
- 1953-08-05
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Encyclopedic overview
From Here to Eternity is a 1953 American romantic war drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel by James Jones. It deals with the tribulations of three United States Army soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Frank Sinatra, stationed in Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Deborah Kerr and Donna Reed portray the women in their lives. The supporting cast features Ernest Borgnine, Philip Ober, Jack Warden, Mickey Shaughnessy, Claude Akins, and George Reeves.
The film is famed for its torrid seaside scene of two of its main characters lying in the sand at the water's edge kissing in an adulterous tryst, a groundbreaking display in its time. Jones's book title originates from Rudyard Kipling's 1892 poem "Gentlemen-Rankers", about soldiers of the British Empire who had "lost [their] way" and were "damned from here to eternity".
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