From here to eternity / Columbia Pictures Corporation ; screenplay by Daniel Taradash ; produced by Buddy Adler ; directed by Fred Zinnemann.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 05319 | Columbia Tristar Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: Chinese, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, 2009Copyright date: ©1953Edition: Full screenDescription: 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0800178831
- 9780800178833
- From here to eternity (Motion picture)
- Director of photography, Burnett Guffey; film editor, William Lyon; musical director, Morris Stoloff.
- Winner of 8 Academy Awards including 1953 Best Picture.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones' acclaimed war novel From Here to Eternity brought the aspirations and frustrations of several people sharply into focus. Sergeant Milt Warden (Burt Lancaster) enters into an affair with Karen (Deborah Kerr), the wife of his commanding officer. Private Robert E. Lee "Prew" Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is a loner who lives by his own code of ethics and communicates better with his bugle than he does with words. Prew's best friend is wisecracking Maggio (Frank Sinatra, in an Oscar-winning performance that revived his flagging career), who has been targeted for persecution by sadistic stockade sergeant Fatso Judson (Ernest Borgnine). Rounding out the principals is Alma Lorene (Donna Reed), a "hostess" at the euphemistically named whorehouse The New Congress Club. All these melodramatic joys and sufferings are swept away by the Japanese attack on the morning of December 7. No words could do justice to the film's most famous scene: the nocturnal romantic rendezvous on the beach, with Burt Lancaster's and Deborah Kerr's bodies intertwining as the waves crash over them. If you're able to take your eyes off the principals for a moment or two, keep an eye out for George Reeves; his supporting role was shaved down when, during previews, audiences yelled "There's Superman!" and began to laugh. From Here to Eternity won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and supporting awards to Sinatra and Reed. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Region 1; NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby digital.
In English, dubbed French, dubbed Spanish or dubbed Portuguese with optional English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean or Thai subtitles; closed captioned.
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra.
Based upon the novel by James Jones.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1953.
Special features: audio commentary from Tim Zinnemann and Alvin Sargent, featurette of the making of From here to eternity, excerpt from Fred Zinnemann: as I see it, theatrical trailers, filmographies, animated menus, production notes, scene selections with motion images.
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Not rated.
CHV rating: PG.
For private home use only.
Winner of 8 Academy Awards including 1953 Best Picture.
Director of photography, Burnett Guffey; film editor, William Lyon; musical director, Morris Stoloff.