From Here To Eternity
At an Army barracks in Hawaii in the days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love.
6 November 1921, Robinson, Illinois, USA
21 October 1905, Westfield, New York, USA
24 January 1917, Hamden, Connecticut, USA
5 January 1914, Woolstock, Iowa, USA
15 April 1923, Los Angeles, California, USA
September 11, 1905 in Los Angeles County, California, USA
14 January 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 October 1920, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
28 June 1928, New York City, New York, USA
23 March 1902, Fort Payne, Alabama, USA
25 May 1926, Nelson, Georgia, USA
18 September 1920, Newark, New Jersey, USA
13 June 1925, Buenos Aires, Argentina
10 October 1919, Long Prairie, Minnesota, USA
10 August 1916, Dixon, Illinois, USA
20 October 1893, Allston, Massachusetts, USA
5 August 1920, New York City, New York, USA
May 9, 1920
24 June 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
14 February 1912, Bay City, Michigan, USA
17 October 1927
3 May 1924, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 July 1925, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
24 May 1907, Vernon, Michigan, USA
18 May 1914, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
19 June 1917, Paducah, Kentucky, USA
12 April 1927, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
28 January 1924, Detroit, Michigan, USA
2 November 1913, New York City, New York, USA
September 19, 2013
Watching it again after not seeing it for many years, I was also struck by how much of a debt novelist-screenwriter Donn Pearce ('Cool Hand Luke') owes to Jones.
February 23, 2015
There isn't a dull moment in the picture.
December 13, 2006
Sominex is cheaper and probably safer.
February 19, 2013
It's the best-ever account of life in the peacetime army.
October 05, 2013
Fred Zinnemann's strength as a director was less on the technical side and more in line with coaxing stellar performances out of his actors, and with this film, he drew a royal flush.
February 23, 2015
The film is anonymously directed, functionally paced and hysterical at times, though it seduces as a hot-blooded spectacle that stitches emotional detail onto the epic canvas of history.
January 29, 2014
In From Here to Eternity, you can glimpse an uneasier future for America, with the social wreckage and the pretending.
September 30, 2013
Despite sliding into melodrama a bit too often, From Here to Eternity remains a decent film due to the strong performances of its Oscar-nominated cast.
September 29, 2010
The cast includes Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Clift and Ernest Borgnine, all of whom are fine, in what is essentially a melodrama.
November 01, 2007
It is an important film from any angle, presenting socko entertainment for big business.
August 29, 2012
The result is a gripping movie that often makes you wish its director, Zinnemann, knew as much about American life as he does about the art of telling a story with a camera.
February 18, 2009
Scriptwriter Daniel Taradash rescued, if not quite a gem, then at least a high-grade industrial diamond from this rough original.
