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From Here to Eternity (1953)

dir: Fred Zinnemann

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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FitFortDanga FitFortDanga wrote about From Here to Eternity

Other than Clift, this doesn't do much for me. It's okay, I guess... the story moves briskly and there's nothing terribly wrong with it (except loads of acting drunk, which I hate, but even that isn't too bad). I even cared about the characters. I just wouldn't ever bother with it again.

7 stars

Stain Stain wrote about From Here to Eternity

Rather less satisfying than its rep would suggest. So much like a soap opera that no wonder it later became a TV series

6 stars

Pippin2010 Pippin2010 wrote a review of From Here to Eternity

From April 25, 2009: What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.aspx From Read the article

turin turin wrote about From Here to Eternity

All the faults of a film over half a century old: pretentious acting, artificial dialogues, in-studio filming and heavy propaganda can't change the fact that it's hell of a good story: strong characters, real-life problems and no easy resolutions.

6 stars