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From Here To Eternity (1953)
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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...
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| From Here To Eternity Movie Review by Andy (4/4/2007) |
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Great classic Hollywood cheese! From Here to Eternity is an example of why movies are so special. You have two love stories and they're played out like a soap opera! Two love stories of forbiden love leading up to Pearl Harbor. The end is ever so epic and tragic. Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Deborah...
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