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From Here to Eternity
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Directed by	Fred Zinnemann
Produced by	Buddy Adler
Written by	James Jones (novel) Daniel Taradash
Starring	Burt Lancaster Montgomery Clift Deborah Kerr Donna Reed Frank Sinatra Ernest Borgnine Merle Travis George Reeves Phillip Ober and Jack Warden
Cinematography	Burnett Guffey
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	August 5, 1953 (U.S. release)
Running time	118 min
Language	English
IMDb profile

From Here to Eternity is a 1953 movie based on the novel by James Jones in which characters work through ordinary bouts of intimidation and infidelity on a military base in the days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Contents 1 Awards 1.1 Nominations 2 Cast 3 Trivia 4 External links

The film won eight Oscars:

• Academy Award for Best Picture - Buddy Adler, producer
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Frank Sinatra
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Donna Reed
• Academy Award for Best Cinematography, black-and-white - Burnett Guffey
• Academy Award for Directing - Fred Zinnemann
• Best Film Editing - William A. Lyon
• Best Sound Recording - John P. Livadary
• Best Writing, Screenplay - Daniel Taradash

It received nominations for a further five Oscars:

• Academy Award for Best Actor - Montgomery Clift
• Academy Award for Best Actor - Burt Lancaster
• Academy Award for Best Actress - Deborah Kerr
• Academy Award for Costume Design, black-and-white - Jean Louis
• Best Music Score - George Duning and Morris Stoloff

In 2002 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Among the cast members without Oscar nominations are Philip Ober, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Warden, and Merle Travis. The novel's author had a small, uncredited part in the film.

• Legend has it that Frank Sinatra got the role in the movie because of his speculated Mafia connections, and that this was the basis for a similar subplot detailed in The Godfather. The truth is more likely to have been that Sinatra's then-wife Ava Gardner persuaded studio head Harry Cohn's wife to go to bat for him, the version related by Kitty Kelley in her comprehensive Sinatra biography.

• A rumor has been circulating for years that George Reeves, who played Sgt. Maylon Stark, had his role drastically edited after preview audiences recognized him as TV's "Superman". However, Zinnemann maintains all his scenes were kept intact from the first draft, nor was there ever a preview screening. This is somewhat depicted in the docudrama Hollywoodland.

• The famous beach lovemaking scene between Lancaster and Kerr was lampooned in the movie Airplane!, where Robert Hays' and Julie Hagerty's characters become covered in seaweed. The producers of the film have always stated that this was a coincidence.

• The movie was also remade as a TV miniseries in 1979.

• The U.S. Army withheld its cooperation from the production until the producers agreed to several modifications, most noticeably the fate of Captain Holmes.

• William Holden, who won the Best Actor Oscar for Stalag 17, felt that he didn't deserve it. Holden thought Burt Lancaster should have won for this film for his portrayal of Sgt. Milt Warden.

• From Here to Eternity was mentioned in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Far Beyond the Stars". A character played by Aron Eisenberg mentions that he prefers it to science fiction stories.

• A majority of the filming is on location in Hawaii at the U.S. Army's Schofield Barracks. Numerous barracks locations are still in tact and still occupied by active duty troops.

• The beach scene was referenced in Gilmore Girls as the way Lane loses her virginity and becomes pregnant.

• From Here To Eternity at All Movie Guide
• From Here to Eternity at the Internet Movie Database
• Script (pdf)