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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780800178833
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: 6599
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1953
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Product Description:
In this landmark film passion and tragedy collide on a military base as a fateful day in December 1941 draws near. Private Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is a soldier and former boxer being manipulated by his superior and peers. His friend Maggio (Frank Sinatra) tries to help him but has his own troubles. Sergeant Warden (Burt Lancaster) and Karen Holmes (Deborah Kerr) tread on dangerous ground as lovers in an illicit affair. Each of their lives will be changed when their stories culminate in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Winner of eight Oscars® including Best Picture Best Director and Best Supporting awards for Sinatra in a career-defining role and for Donna Reed as a not-so-wholesome club hostess.System Requirements:Running Time: 117 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 043396053199 Manufacturer No: 05319
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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Rating:  - From Here to a Classic
From Here to Eternity is more than the classic scene of Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster rolling around on a beach, covered in ocean waves.It's a story about America during World War II.It's about human beings trying to live normal lives during an abnormal time.Taking place just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this is more than a war movie.It's a human story of love, honor, humor, and hope.Anyone who enjoys real-life drama will appreciate this well-written and well-acted story.From Here ... Read More
Rating:  - 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 to overcome when this was made, all owing to the strict censorship of the time.
(1) The realistic, if very profane, language spoken by soldiers could not be used in the 1950s.The language of the novel was a big departure in popular American fiction, and the movies had not caught up with readers.
(2) The extra-marital affairs were treated somewhat mysteriously.Sex ... Read More
Rating: - 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 excellent and in a rarity for the time, there is really no happy ending at all and what I really liked about the film is that it came across as sincere and true to life; it hit home that in life, we don't always get the happy ending that we want at least not in the short term.The acting is also very, very good even for the often underrated Montgomery Clift who never got his due as a great ... Read More
Rating: - 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.This film is so much more than the classic beach scene they play constantly on greatest movie moments clip shows.Burt Lancaster gives a strong performance as Sgt. Warden, the first sergeant to an incompetent, philandering captain.Warden begins an affair with the captain's wife, Karen, played with aplomb by Deborah Kerr.The romantic beach scene is nice, but the real fireworks come right ... Read More
Rating: - 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 years old, what did I have to measure it by? At that age, I hadn't been allowed to go to movies, even with my girlfriends.We sneaked off to see "From Here To Eternity". We probably told our parents that we were going to see Bob Hope/Bing Crosby or Gene Autry. (Just a few that I can remember from back then.) Oh, but I remember From Here To Eternity very well. The only other thing was that I ... Read More
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