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.
18 September 1920, Newark, New Jersey, USA
3 May 1925, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
October 30, 1916 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA
10 October 1919, Long Prairie, Minnesota, USA
July 13, 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA
14 January 1919, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
5 March 1926, Forest Hills, New York, USA
28 July 1899, Beresford, South Dakota, USA
29 November 1917, Rosewood, Kentucky, USA
12 February 1905, Hillsboro, Illinois, USA
19 June 1917, Paducah, Kentucky, USA
24 June 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
5 January 1914, Woolstock, Iowa, USA
18 May 1914, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
30 July 1918, Valley View, Texas, USA
13 June 1925, Buenos Aires, Argentina
10 August 1916, Dixon, Illinois, USA
12 April 1927, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
15 April 1923, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 January 1921, Denison, Iowa, USA
May 9, 1920
5 August 1920, New York City, New York, USA
12 December 1915, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
November 26, 1929 in Arizona, USA
24 May 1907, Vernon, Michigan, USA
17 October 1920, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
26 March 1910
21 October 1905, Westfield, New York, USA
14 January 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA
February 19, 2013
It's the best-ever account of life in the peacetime army.
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.
September 29, 2010
The cast includes Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Clift and Ernest Borgnine, all of whom are fine, in what is essentially a melodrama.
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.
February 18, 2009
Scriptwriter Daniel Taradash rescued, if not quite a gem, then at least a high-grade industrial diamond from this rough original.
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.
November 01, 2007
It is an important film from any angle, presenting socko entertainment for big business.
February 23, 2015
There isn't a dull moment in the picture.
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.
January 29, 2014
In From Here to Eternity, you can glimpse an uneasier future for America, with the social wreckage and the pretending.
December 13, 2006
Sominex is cheaper and probably safer.
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.
