From Here to Eternity

1953 film by Fred Zinnemann

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"From Here to Eternity" is a 1953 film directed by Fred Zinnemann that depicts the lives of U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Hawaii around the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. The film is considered a significant work in cinema history and was notable for its critical and commercial success.

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7.3

In 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.

Released: 1953-08-28118 minDir: Fred ZinnemannWar, Romance, Drama

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

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7.6/10

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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".