Robert Lee pruit after the accident was transferred to another part. Capable fighter, he refuses to act on the ring, because during a training bout caused his friend's injury, with the result that he became blind.
However, army authorities sport is a good career tool, and the reluctance of private Pruitt to step into the ring is considered as something very close to treason. It is this rejection that makes the Pruit in the eyes of the authorities, and especially the captain of HOMS, subversive element. Among a large number of very colorful representatives of the garrison are allocated, private Angelo Maggio, who falls to the military prison, famous for its intransigence to the troublemakers.
Sergeant Milton warden, on the contrary, hating officers and as an institution and as a sum of specific individuals, resists its own way impeccable knowledge of their responsibilities and professionalism that makes it simply irreplaceable in the company. However, his revenge against the boss and takes a very specific form he has an affair with the wife of his company commander Karen HOMS, which does not feel her husband nothing but contempt.
However, neither Milton nor Karen has no illusions about the longevity of his novel, which nevertheless threatens to escalate the scope of the ordinary affair into a big, all-consuming love...
It will take only a few days comes the seventh of December 1941 when the Japanese air force will deal a massive blow to the American military base at pearl Harbor in Hawaii and on the fate of the heroes of this film.
From Here to Eternity
| Year | 1953 |
|---|---|
| Country | USA |
| Tagline | Pouring out of impassioned pages...brawling their way to greatness on the screen! |
| Director | Fred Zinnemann |
| Cinematography | Burnett GuffeyFloyd Crosby |
| Scriptwriters | Daniel TaradashJames Jones |
| Produced | Buddy Adler |
| Music | George Duning |
| Art Direction | Cary OdellJean LouisFrank Tuttle |
| Editing | William A. Lyon |
| Genres | DramaMelodramaMilitary |
| USA Gross | $30 500 000сборы |
| Release Date | August 5, 1953 |
| Runtime | 118 min. |
Plot Summary
Did You Know?
The film is based on the eponymous bestseller (1951) James Jones.
In 2002, the film was included in the national registry of films.
The Italian-American Frank Sinatra, reading the novel by James Jones, really wanted to play the role of the Italian American Maggio. He fell asleep in the Studio and the head of the Studio "Columbia pictures" Harry Cohn telegrams signed "Maggio", but Kon was afraid to take in a serious drama non-professional actor, who "danced and sang with Gene Kelly." Ava Gardner, who was familiar with his wife CONA, Joanna, asked her to help and allow her husband to pass the audition. Though after all the auditions for the role was approved by Eli Wallach, he subsequently refused the role, exchanging her production of "Camino Real" on Broadway. Despite the fact that Frank Sinatra got the part only 8 thousand dollars. (compared to 130 thousand dollars. for his role eight years earlier in the film "anchors aweigh"), the prize award enabled him in triumph to return to show business and resurrect his career, which steadily went downhill.
For the role of Karen Holmes was invited to Joan Fontaine, but she declined for family reasons. Later Joan was greatly saddened, as her career soon went into decline. From Joan Crawford had to be abandoned after she said that her beauty can capture only one operator with whom she worked on the previous film. In the end, the female roles were approved by Deborah Kerr and Donna reed.
Montgomery Clift did not know how to box and refused to take Boxing lessons before shooting, so in all scenes with fights it replaces stand-in that you can see a careful viewing of the film.
