From Here to Eternity
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From Here to Eternity is set in 1941 at the Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, where the routine of army life is shaped by ambition, resentment and desire. Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt, a capable former boxer, is transferred to a new company and refuses to fight on its team. He keeps to that decision after having blinded a friend in the ring, and his officers treat the refusal as defiance rather than conscience. Captain Holmes, who wants the garrison's boxing reputation upheld, allows Prewitt to be punished and isolated by his fellow soldiers instead of transferred. Meanwhile, First Sergeant Milton Warden — the company's indispensable professional — begins an affair with Holmes's wife, Karen, who wants out of a marriage she has come to despise. Prewitt's closest friend is the Italian American private Angelo Maggio. The film builds toward the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which interrupts the base's private conflicts.
Fred Zinnemann directed, working from Daniel Taradash's screenplay of James Jones's novel, with Buddy Adler producing for Columbia Pictures. It followed Zinnemann's High Noon and preceded Oklahoma! in his filmography. Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift lead as Warden and Prewitt, with Deborah Kerr as Karen, Frank Sinatra as Maggio, Donna Reed as Alma Burke and Philip Ober as Captain Holmes; 63 cast members are credited.
Made for about 2 million dollars, the film took roughly 31 million worldwide, a return far beyond its cost. On IMDb it holds 7.6 from 54,000 votes, on TMDB 7.3 from 733 votes, and a critics' rating of 8.3 from 100 reviews sits above both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on the bestselling novel (1951) of the same name by James Jones.
- In 2002, the film was included in the National Film Registry.
- Joan Fontaine was considered for the role of Karen Holmes, but she declined due to family circumstances. Later, Joan deeply regretted this decision, as her career soon began to decline. Joan Crawford's services had to be declined after she stated that only the cinematographer she had worked with on her previous film could capture her beauty. Ultimately, Deborah Kerr and Donna Reed were approved for the female roles.
- Montgomery Clift was completely unable to box and refused to take boxing lessons before filming, so a stunt double replaced him in all the fight scenes, which is noticeable upon careful viewing of the film.
- Italian-American Frank Sinatra, after reading James Jones's novel, very much wanted to play the role of the Italian-American Maggio. He flooded the studio and the head of Columbia Pictures, Harry Cohn, with telegrams signed "Maggio", but Cohn was afraid to cast a non-professional actor who "danced and sang with Gene Kelly" in a serious drama. Ava Gardner, who was acquainted with Cohn's wife, Joanna, asked her to intervene and allow her husband to audition. Although Eli Wallach was approved for the role after all the auditions, he later turned it down, trading it for the Broadway production of "Camino Real". Despite the fact that Frank Sinatra received only $8,000 for this role (compared to $130,000 for his own role eight years earlier in "Anchors Aweigh"), the Academy Award allowed him to triumphantly return to show business and revive his career, which had been steadily declining.
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