Synopsis
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
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Cast
- Burt Lancaster1st Sgt. Milton Warden
- Montgomery CliftPvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
- Deborah KerrKaren Holmes
- Donna ReedAlma 'Lorene' Burke
- Frank SinatraPvt. Angelo Maggio
- Philip OberCapt. Dana Holmes
- Mickey ShaughnessyCpl. Leva
- Harry BellaverPvt. Mazzioli
- Ernest BorgnineSgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson
- Jack WardenCpl. Buckley
Recommendations
- 100
Los Angeles Times
From Here to Eternity remains, half a century later, a singular cinematic experience, one of the landmarks of American film. - 100
Boston Globe
So clear-eyed and three-dimensional that it makes the recent ''Pearl Harbor'' look like a bunch of kids playing dress up. Aspects of the film have dated, but in the important things it's more mature than anything proposed lately by modern Hollywood. - 100
The Telegraph
It is now regarded as one of the finest war dramas ever to be made in Hollywood. And that beach scene with Lancaster and Kerr is iconic in movie history. Not bad for a film originally dismissed as a “folly”. - 100
Variety
An outstanding motion picture...It’s still raw, tough dramatic stuff of great entertainment pull for adult ticket buyers. Only a few will find it too strong for their effete tastes. Importantly, the distaffers will like it. - 100
The New York Times
Out of "From Here to Eternity," a novel whose anger and compassion stirred a post-war reading public as few such works have, Columbia and a company of sensitive hands have forged a film almost as towering and persuasive as its source...Stands as a shining example of truly professional moviemaking. - 90
The New Republic
At the same time, the movie (directed by Fred Zinnemann) is too tidy. - 80
Village Voice
Contemporary audiences may not see why, even in its toned-down simplification of the novel, From Here to Eternity was the most daring movie of 1953, but it remains an acting bonanza. - 80
Empire
The spectacular last-reel recreation of the bombing makes this, Michael Bay notwithstanding, the Pearl Harbor film to beat, but the unquestioned highlight is the famous on‑the‑beach adultery scene between virile sergeant Lancaster and an unusually unladylike Kerr, with the waves crashing around them to symbolise their unrestrained passions.
