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From Here to Eternity is a 1953 movie based on a James Jones novel in which characters work through ordinary bouts of intimidation and infidelity on a military base in the days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Awards

The film won eight Oscars:

Nominations

It received nominations for a further five Oscars: In 2002 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry
.

Cast

Among the cast members without Oscar nominations are Philip Ober, Ernest Borgnine
, Jack Warden
, and Merle Travis. The novel's author had a small, uncredited part in the film.

Trivia

  • Legend has it that Frank Sinatra got the role in the movie because of his speculated Mafia connections, and that this was the basis for a similar subplot in The Godfather
    .
  • The famous beach lovemaking scene between Lancaster and Kerr was lampooned in the movie Airplane!
    , where Robert Hays
    ' and Julie Hagerty
    's characters become covered in seaweed.
  • The movie was also remade as a TV miniseries in 1979.
  • The U.S. Army withheld its cooperation from the production until the producers agreed to several modifications, most noticeably the fate of Captain Holmes.


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