From Here to Eternity

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Overview

"Though not labeled a special edition, From Here to Eternity does have a number of supplemental features. Unfortunately, the sum of the parts doesn't equal the whole. A two-minute ""making of"" featurette doesn't amount to much and a slightly longer excer

Product Details

Release Date:	03/06/2007
UPC:	0043396053199
Original Release:	1953
Rating:	NR
Source:	Sony Pictures
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital]
Language:	English
Time:	1:58:00
Sales rank:	4,779

Special Features

Audio commentary from Tim Zinnemann and Alvin Sargent; Featurette: "The Making of From Here to Eternity"; Excerpt from "Fred Zinnemann: As I See It"; Theatrical trailers; Filmographies; Production notes

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Burt Lancaster	Sgt. Milton Warden
Montgomery Clift	Robert E. Lee Prewitt
Deborah Kerr	Karen Holmes
Frank Sinatra	Pvt. Angelo Maggio
Donna Reed	Alma Lorene
Ernest Borgnine	Sgt. Judson
Philip Ober	Capt. Dana Holmes
Jack Warden	Cpl. Buckley
George Reeves	Sgt. Maylon Stark
Harry Bellaver	Mazzioli
John Dennis	Sgt. Ike Galovitch
Tim Ryan	Sgt. Pete Karelsen
Barbara Morrison	Mrs. Kipfer
Kristine Miller	Georgette,Actor
Jean Willes	Annette
Merle Travis	Sal Anderson
Arthur Keegan	Treadwell
Robert Karnes	Sgt. Turp Thornhill
Bob Wilke	Sgt. Henderson,Sgt. Henderson
Douglas Henderson	Cpl. Champ Wilson
Don Dubbins	Friday Clark
John Cason	Cpl. Paluso
John Bryant	Capt. Ross
Joan Shawlee	Sandra
Angela Stevens	Jean
Mary Carver	Nancy
Vicki Bakken	Suzanne
Margaret Barstow	Roxanne
Delia Salvi	Billie
Willis Bouchey	Lieutenant Colonel,Lieutenant Colonel
Al Sargent	Nair,Nair [uncredited],Actor
Weaver Levy	Bartender
Tyler McVey	Maj. Stern
John Patrick Veitch	Actor
William Lundmark	Bill
Robert Healy	Soldier
Brick Sullivan	Military Guard
Moana Gleason	Rose, Waitress
Freeman Lusk	Col. Wood
Robert Pike	Maj. Bonds
Carleton Young	Col. Ayres
Fay Roope	Gen. Slater
Louise Saraydar	Actor
Joe Roach	Actor
Norman Wayne	Actor
Mack Chandler	Actor
Edward Laguna	Actor
John Veitch	Actor
John Davis	Actor
Carey Leverette	Actor
Allen Pinson	Actor
Guy Way	Actor
Manny Klein	Actor
James Jones	Composer,Actor
George Duning	Composer
Morris Stoloff	Composer
Mickey Shaughnessy	Actor
Claude Akins	Sgt. 'Baldy' Dhom
Elaine DuPont	Minor Role

Technical Credits

Daniel Taradash

Daniel Taradash	Screenwriter
Buddy Adler	Producer
Lewis J. Rachmil	Producer
John Cason	Stunts

Scene Index

Side #1 -- From Here to Eternity
0. Scene Selections
1. Start [2:15]
2. Sgt. Warden [6:56]
3. Mrs. Holmes [1:42]
4. Holmes' sweet home [1:51]
5. The company boxers [3:05]
6. The Treatment [4:08]
7. Rainy day woman [10:41]
8. The Princess Lorene [4:51]
9. On the beach [6:22]
10. Prewitt's story [3:37]
11. "Re-enlistment Blues" [:37]
12. In the gym [3:31]
13. "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" [2:59]
14. Gonna cut his heart out [1:59]
15. The Kalakaua Inn [6:56]
16. Waiting for a movie star [3:20]
17. "Hello, tough monkey." [2:57]
18. Two couples with plans [:29]
19. prewitt vs. Galovitch [:17]
20. Two bumps in the road [9:48]
21. "I escaped." [6:31]
22. "Taps" [4:07]
23. A word with Fatso [1:54]
24. Holmes resigns [2:22]
25. December 7, 1941 [4:18]
26. Warden shoots back [5:41]
27. Prewitt's return [4:03]
28. Returning stateside [4:32]

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Special Features
Audio Commentary with Tim Zinnemann (Director's Son) and Al Sargent On
Audio Commentary with Tim Zinnemann (Director's Son) and Al Sargent Off
Featurette: The Making of From Here to Eternity
Excerpts From Fred Zinnemann: "As I See It"
Theatrical Trailers
From Here to Eternity
The Guns of Navarone
Bridge on the River Kwai
Filmographies
Fred Zinnemann (Director)
Daniel Taradash (Screenwriter)
Burt Lancaster
Montgomery Clift
Deborah Kerr
Donna Reed
Frank Sinatra

Editorial Reviews

There were few movies greeted with more anticipation than Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity when it opened in 1953. Adapted from one of the best-selling novels of the previous 10 years, it was a film for which everyone had high expectations. It lived up to all of them and then some, adding a new level of violence and frankness to popular dramatic films just when the public was ready to accept these elements (though the movie couldn't even hint at an aspect that James Jones' novel mentioned almost at its outset: the homosexual advances that Pruett parried from his former sergeant, resulting in his transfer to a rifle company). Burt Lancaster, who'd previously established himself as a hero-victim in a series of films noirs made under the auspices of Universal and as a costume hero in a pair of Warner Brothers period adventure films (The Flame And The Arrow, The Crimson Pirate), transformed himself into the quintessential macho leading man with his performance; Montgomery Clift gave the performance of his life as Robert E. Lee Pruett, unwilling boxer and trumpet player; ex-navy enlisted man Ernest Borgnine dominated every scene he was in as Sgt. Judson, the most vicious enlisted man seen on screen in a mainstream American movie up to that time; Deborah Kerr, previously known for her plucky, lady-like roles, got to play an unabashedly sexual woman, and a married one at that; Donna Reed, cast against type as the prostitute with delusions of her own, gave the most honest and wrenching performance of her career; and Frank Sinatra, cast against all prevailing wisdom in Hollywood (and beating out Eli Wallach for the choicest supporting role in Hollywood that year), became a great actor overnight as the doomed Maggio. Even Merle Travis, a veritable god among guitar players but an anonymous figure to most filmgoers, got a memorable scene and song ("Re-Enlistment Blues") out of the film. From Here to Eternity raised the bar for realism (and the genuine, jagged, if ugly side of life) in war movies, and in movies in general. Bruce Eder