From Here to Eternity (Superbit Collection) |  | Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  97 reviews
Sales Rank: 76,365
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Full Screen, Live, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Georgian (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 99
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 118 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: COLD00868D
ISBN: 1404930698
UPC: 043396008687
EAN: 9781404930698
ASIN: B0000844MQ
Theatrical Release Date: 1953
Release Date: March 4, 2003
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/04/2003 Run time: 118 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com
Here's a model for adapting a novel into a movie. The bestseller by James Jones, a frank and hard-hitting look at military life, could not possibly be made into a film in 1953 without considerably altering its length and bold subject matter. Yet screenwriter Daniel Taradash and director Fred Zinnemann (both of whom won Oscars for their work) pared it down and cleaned it up, without losing the essential texture of Jones's tapestry. The setting is an army base in Hawaii in 1941. Montgomery Clift, in a superb performance, plays a bugler who refuses to fight for the company boxing team; he has reasons for giving up the sport. His refusal results in harsh treatment from the company commander, whose bored wife (Deborah Kerr) is having an affair with the tough-but-fair sergeant (Burt Lancaster). You remember--the scene with the two of them embracing on the beach, as the surf crashes in. The supporting players are as good as the leads: Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed won Oscars (and Sinatra revitalized his entire career), and Ernest Borgnine entered the gallery of all-time movie villains, as the stockade sergeant who makes Sinatra miserable. Zinnemann's work is efficient but also evocative, capturing the time and place beautifully, the tropical breezes as well as the lazy prewar indulgence. This one is deservedly a classic. --Robert Horton
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 From Here to Eternity July 11, 2010
Fantastic movie. Frank Sinatra is awesome in this movie. Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr and the beach scene still make my heart beat faster.
timely fashion June 9, 2010
Heather Skinner
Was glad to find this movie. Received in a timely manner and in great condition.
Still a classic May 11, 2010
Boo
This was one of Hollywood's best films. It is still on of the classics of the Golden Years.
 Dated, overly sudsy Best Picture winner March 9, 2010
One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:
Somehow adapted from a novel which was considered rather anti-establishment, From Here to Eternity is a hopelessly-square movie, with lifeless performances by its leads, an overabundance of melodramatic moments and sequences, and a concluding sequence involving the Pearl Harbor attack which feels ridiculously tacked-on; half a century this film may have been deemed 1953's best film, but time has not been kind to it.
2/4
GOOD MOVIE - NOT GREAT March 3, 2010
C. Chandler (Whitesboro, Texas USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
.....I know my review will be in the minority but I think this is an overrated movie more famous as the "movie" that saved Frank Sinatra's career than for it's dramatic content.
.....The only acting performances that deserved to be praised were turned in by Burt Lancaster and Debra Kerr but in typical perverse Hollywood tradition Sinatra and Reed walked away with Oscars.
.....This was Sinatra's first big dramatic part and it showed. Although, in time, he learned to act and to develop an on-screen personna, in this movie he was just plain awful, as bad as another non-actor, Elvis Presely was in his first movie Love Me Tender. Sinatra got the part due to the clout of his paramour Ava Gardner and was, at that time, at the nadir of his career, deserted by his fans for divorcing his childhood sweetheart for Gardner. Fans were still sensitive to such things in those days. Hollywood, anxious to restore Sinatra to box office dynamite rewarded him with an Oscar for his deer-in-the-headlights on screen mugging.
.....Donna Reed (Mary Bailey in Wonderful Life and star of the Donna Reed Show) sacrificed her good girl image to play a cynical hard bitten prostitute and was totally unbelievable in the part. But Hollywod has a habit of giving Oscars to actresses who are willing to debase themselves with unsavory parts (Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry) and so Reed joined the club.
.....Montgomery Cliff, who always seemed to be a watered down version of Marlon Brando in his mumbling performances was suited for this role but was hard to believe as a boxing champion in the worn out theme of a boxer who quits the ring because he killed an opponent with his fists. Cliff looked much too slight, more like a lightweight than a middleweight to have such a lethal punch. John Wayne was much more believable in "The Quiet Man". Montgomery Cliffs popularity was hard to fathom because with the exception of this movie and his role with Elizabeth Taylor in "A Place in the Sun", he seemed miscast in most of his roles, especially with John Wayne in "Red River", a part that much more suited for Jack Beutel of "Outlaw" fame.
.....Ernest Borgnine turned in a fine performance as the sadistic Stockade guard.
.....This movie was not shown on Military Bases when it was released because the Military did not like to show how its disciplined structure could be corrupted and used to persecute men by their superior officers. The theme was too close to the reality for the Brass.
.....This is a good movie but not as great as its hype. If you like good acting, it is worth the price for the performances of Lancaster and Kerr.
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