From Here to Eternity (PG)

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<strong>Rating: </strong>4/5

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Time Out says

Tue Sep 21 2010

It’s odd that programmers would choose Fred Zinneman’s lip-smacking ensemble melodrama from 1953 as the centrepiece of a BFI retrospective of the work of actress Deborah Kerr – it’s a stretch to call her one of the film’s key players. Yes, she gets to canoodle in the Hawaiian surf with Burt Lancaster, but the film mostly focuses on the band of dysfunctional tyros at a nearby army base whose carefree, pre-Pearl Harbor lives are on the road to ruin long before the bombs drop. ‘From Here to Eternity’ remains a garish but compelling ode to the lonely lot of the pacifist, and Montgomery Clift is outstanding as the blighted boxing-champ-cum-bugle-player who is constantly goaded by friends (Frank Sinatra), enemies (Ernest Borgnine) and lovers (Donna Reed) to unleash his ferocious alter-ego. 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.

Author: David Jenkins

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Release details

Rated:

PG

UK release:

Fri Sep 24 2010

Duration:

118 mins

Cast and crew

Editor:

William A Lyon

Music:

George Duning

Cast:

Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift, Jack Warden, Philip Ober, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Ernest Borgnine

Director:

Fred Zinnemann

Art Director:

Cary Odell

Cinematography:

Burnett Guffey

Producer:

Buddy Adler

Screenwriter:

Daniel Taradash

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Rated as: 4/5 (2 ratings)

  • apologies for some typo's and double post

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  • Watchd last night for thevery first time, very much a 50's movie but great performances all round, Sinatra in good form devoid of too much indulgence, Lancaster very believable as the loyal army man. Watching it now you get the sense it didnt escape the attention of many of that generations filmmakers, although perhaps not a driectors film it certainly stages certain scenes very well and fr the sheer scale of the intertwining stories and setting of the film, its still stands up

    Ray Sun Nov 14 2010
    Rated as: 4/5
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  • Watchd last night for thevery first time, very much a 50's movie but great performances all round, Sinatra in good form devoid of too much indulgence, Lancaster very believable as the loyal army man. Watching it now you get the sense it didnt escape the attention of many of that generations filmmakers, although perhaps not a driectors film it certainly stages certain scenes very well and fr the sheer scale of the intertwining stories and setting of the film, its still stands up

    Ray Sun Nov 14 2010
    Rated as: 4/5
    Report
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