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From Here to Eternity is a 1953 rama film based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. It deals with the troubles of soldiers stationed on Hawaii in the days just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The material of the rather explicit novel had to be considerably toned down to appease the censors of the time. For example, in the famous beach scene, it is less obvious that Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster's characters have actually been having sex than it is in the novel and the later, more frank 1979 miniseries based on the book.

Trivia about from here to eternity

  • Frank was paid $8,000 to play Maggio in this 1953 film that helped revive his career
  • 1953:Military corruption, romance & boxing at a Hawaiian Army camp just prior to Pearl Harbor
  • In 1979 this James Jones novel was a miniseries with Steve Railsback in Montgomery Clift's movie role
  • Burt Lancaster & Deborah Kerr kiss in the pounding surf....need we say more?
  • In this film Monty Clift says goodbye to Donna Reed & returns to duty as Pearl Harbor is attacked
  • The kiss between Deborah Kerr & Burt Lancaster in this 1953 movie seemed to go on forever
  • Dying in this film, Sinatra warns Prew, "Watch out for Fatso, he'll try to crack you...."
  • Frank won an Oscar for playing the role of Maggio in this 1953 war movie
  • 1953:"Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name"
  • James Jones' 1962 novel "The Thin Red Line" was a sequel to this 1951 work
  • James Jones considered "Old Soldiers Never Die" as a title for his WWII novel but settled on this, from a Kipling line

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