![]() ![]() ![]() The young fellow stands firm just the same until Staff Sergeant Fatso Judson (Borgnine) has a go at Prewitt’s only friend, the hot-headed Maggio (Sinatra).Īdapted from a characteristically robust novel by James Jones (author of The Thin Red Line), From Here to Eternity doesn’t skimp on subplots or machismo. Following a suggestion from First Sergeant Milton Warden (Lancaster), Holmes resolves to make the reluctant Prewitt’s life as miserable as possible. Captain Dana “Dynamite” Holmes (Philip Ober) promises that Prewitt will return from the South Seas as a corporal or sergeant if he helps Company G win a boxing trophy in an upcoming bout. His fellow soldiers are having none of it. Lee Prewitt, a talented former boxer who has hung up his gloves after blinding one of his former opponents. ![]() Montgomery Clift, the silver screen’s most heart-wrenching actor, headlines as Private Robert E. If that doesn’t ring any bells there are any number of parodies of that scene between Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting in the Hawaiian waves.ĭespite its romantic associations From Here to Eternity often feels like a never-ending bar brawl. Even those who’ve never sat through Fred Zimmermann’s war epic will know it as the film that (allegedly) inspired the horse’s head scene in The Godfather. ![]()
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