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From Here To Eternity (DVD)

 
Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1954 / Director: Fred Zinnemann / Actors: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift ... / DVD ... more
From Here To Eternity (DVD) ... released 14 January, 2002 at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Black & White, Dubbed, Full Screen, PAL / From Here to Eternity offers a much more heartfelt interpretation of the event that propelled the United States into World War II than any film made in recent years. Here there are no angst-ridden scenes where "true love" returns from the dead, no costly CGI and definitely no Hallmark happy ending. This is a film about illicit sex, military machismo and tragic loss of love, friendship and ultimately life. The filmmakers did, however, have to make some compromises when adapting James Jones's novel: Alma becomes a "hostess" rather than a prostitute and the very downbeat ending, where Captain Holmes is essentially rewarded for his brutality by the military, was replaced with the morally acceptable punishment of his actions by a more self-aware army. Although Private Robert E Lee Pruitt's story provides the meat of the film, there are other subplots woven into the narrative, including a couple of doomed love affairs, which explore themes of adultery and social acceptance. Sergeant Warden (Burt Lancaster) begins a torrid affair with the commander's wife Karen (Deborah Kerr) leading to one of the most famous moments in movie history--the "clinch in the surf". From then on everything is challenged. Love, honour and eventually whether you should conform or stand up for what you believe in. At the end the couples are left wondering about the future of their relationship, but fate decides for them as the Japanese launch their attack on Pearl Harbor, leaving us with one of the most dramatic and moving endings of any war film. On the DVD: The black and white film is not anamorphically enhanced but presented full frame in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1, although the transfer is well done and the picture is pretty sharp. Sound is 2.0 mono rather than the standard 5.1 reworking of the audio track, and it works. The dialogue is clear without any noticeable hiss. There's a 22-minute "making of" documentary, which doesn't really do justice to the film and contains very little information of interest. Along with this is Fred Zinnemann's As I See It, an extract from the director's home video footage from the shoot. You also get the theatrical trailer, but the best feature is the audio commentary, by Fred Zinnemann's son Tim and screenwriter Alvin Sargent, which has some fantastic detail about the struggle between director and studio-head Harry Cohn over casting, along with the run-ins with the censor and US military over the "inflammatory nature" of the film.--Kristen Bowditch

Newest Review: ... the star of his base boxing team. Pruitt however doesn't want to box anymore because he blinded a friend during a ... more

 ... sparring match and is wrestling with his guilt over it. His refusal to box means he is given the worst details and is subject to cruel treatment from many of the enlisted men. The Army however is Pruitt's home and he loves it. Pruitt eventually falls for a club hostess played by Donna Reed (she won a Supporting Actress Oscar). Frank Sinatra plays Pruitt's best friend in the platoon and has several border-line comic run ins with Ernest...more

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Premium Review From Here To Eternity (DVD): From Here to Eternity The Pearl Harbor film worth seeing (1149 words)
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From Here to Eternity is the highly regarded and awarded film from 1953, that explores the lives of hard drinking Army men stationed at Pearl Harbor, who don't always play by the rules. It's a film that is much more frank than most films of its era in its depictions of male camaraderie as well as romantic entanglements. It's the film that features that passionate embrace of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr on the beach as the waves roll in. It's the film that featured the Oscar winning dramatic performance of Frank Sinatra and it's the film that concluded with a dramatic recreation of the bombing of Peal Harbor, December 7th. Not the most ...  Read the complete review

 
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