From Here To Eternity
Romance, War
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment  (1953) 118 mins NR

7.9 (11,910 votes)
Winner Of 8 Academy Awards® Including 1953 Best Picture

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 (Deborahh 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."...

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Cast and Crew
Donna Reed  ......  Alma 'Lorene' Burke
Deborah Kerr  ......  Karen Holmes
Frank Sinatra  ......  Pvt. Angelo Maggio
Burt Lancaster  ......  1st Sgt. Milton Warden
Montgomery Clift  ......  Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
Philip Ober  ......  Capt. Dana 'Dynamite' Holmes
Director  .....  Fred Zinnemann
Producer  .....  Buddy Adler
Writer  .....  Daniel Taradash; James Jones
Notes
Goofs:
Factual errors: The impromptu bugle solo in the club is obviously a trumpet solo dubbed into the scene. There's no way a valve-less bugle could achieve the range of notes heard in that solo. (more)

Trivia:
If Columbia head Harry Cohn had gotten his way, the film would have starred Aldo Ray as Prewitt, Edmond O'Brien as Warden, Joan Crawford as Karen, Julie Harris as Lorene and Eli Wallach as Maggio. (more)

Filming Locations:
Diamond Head, O`ahu, Hawaii, USA (more)

Quotes:
Karen Holmes: If you're looking for the Captain... he ain't here.
Sergeant Milton Warden: [eyes Karen coyly] And if I ain't lookin' for the Captain?
Karen Holmes: Then he still ain't here.
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Awards:
Won 8 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 7 nominations (more)