They don't make 'em like this anymore!

Rating: Null/10 (31 March 2003)

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) **** Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Philip Ober, Jack Warden, George Reeves, Claude Akins. One of the all time greatest films ever made: Set during the dawning days prior to WWII and the bombing of Pearl Harbor, centers on the lives of the men (and their women) of the Honolulu Army base with an almost soap opera approach-Lancaster is the master sergeant (Best Actor nominee) having an affair with the hot to trot wife (Kerr, nominee for Best Actress) of his officious officer in charge Ober; sensitive Clift (Best Actor nominee too), a boxer who once blinded an opponent, licking his wounds and falling for escort Reed (Best Supporting Actress); scrappy Italian-American incarnate Sinatra (Best Supporting Actor), in a fine performance, facing many a challenge with racist stockade sergeant Borgnine and of course the beautiful scenery of idyllic Hawaii before the carnage ensuing. Winner of the Best Picture Oscar, Best Director (Fred Zinneman), Black and White Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay by Daniel Taradash based on the James Jones best seller, Best Editing, and Best Sound. Also nominated for Best Costumes and Best Score. One for the film vaults' time capsule, the passionate beach making out of Lancaster and Kerr in the pounding Pacific surf. They don't make 'em like this anymore!