This Word War Two drama features an all-star cast, and is generally considered to be one of the best movies of all time. Burt Lancaster stars as Sgt. Warden, a career soldier who has an affair with his commanding officer’s wife, played by Deborah Kerr. Montgomery Clift is a rebellious and proud soldier who falls in love with a prostitute(Donna Reed), and Frank Sinatra’s performance of Maggio earned him an Oscar for best supporting actor. Ernest Borgnine, Claude Akins, George Reeves and Willis Bouchey are just some of the familiar faces that costar in this great production.
Hollywood totally sanitized the book which did not have anything good to say about military life,the corrupt captain does not get his comeuppance ,the brutal guards are never disciplined…
It was Rare for a “motion picture” to be considered “Great” back then? I guess they were still distrusting of this technology and viewed it as a lesser art.
Didn’t know Joan Crawford walked out on this one. It would’ve revitalized her career yet again, like “All About Eve” did for Bette Davis around the same time. This is quite an entertaining movie, the book is even better, and of course this is in a class by itself for Frank Sinatra performances and relaunched his career from the doldrums into the stratosphere. His wife Ava Gardner apparently got him the part through Harry Cohn’s wife, one of her pals.
Awesome book awesome movie!
And all it took was a horse’s head to get Frank Sinatra in this movie! For you Oakland Raiders fans, that’s a “Godfather” reference.
@parmelee23 ~ I so agree with you. You get no taste of the movie from this trailer. I’m guessing that Colombia didn’t think they needed more, given the controversy over the book at the time. One of Joan Crawford’s biggest career errors was walking out of this movie at the elevnth hour, to be replaced by Deborah Kerr.
Great movie !!!
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horrible trailer great movie
Yes, very good.
From Here to Eternity is #52 in the AFI’s list of greatest movies of all time. I think it should be higher, it’s wonderful. I’m watching all the movies online, here:
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sgt Welsh.. sorry for mistake
there is Pvt Witt, Sergeant Warden and so on, Its great movie about a human trying to fight for his dreams and live his values in the insane world,
Similar book but slightly different, also deep but full of humor is Paragraph 22 by Joseph Heller, I think there was a movie adaptation of this one too, wasnt it ?
I read the book and Im looking forward to see the movie, Jones is a very philosophical writer, I remember that when I was reading this book few years ago, I lived in in it and dreamed of it, For 2 months I was only in the world of a book, I cant get the second part of Jones trilogy The thin red line, Interesting thing is that the name of the characters and their fates remain similar but they are not the same people, In Eternity.. You have seargant Warden, Pvt Prewitt and so on, In Thin red line