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Release Date: 10 February, 2004 Retail Price: $19.94 OUR Price: $18.71 You SAVE: $1.23! Cast: Complete Cast (15 total) |
From Here to Eternity Reviews
One of the Best Movies I've Ever Seen
From Here to Eternity, where to begin? This is probably one of my top 10 movies that I've ever seen. I love it! Frank Sinatra is wonderful in it; Montgomery Clift is gorgeous, vulnerable, and brave in this movie; Burt Lancaster is awesome, as everyone who has ever seen him could tell you. This movie shows a clear depiction of the soldiers at Pearl Harbor before it was bombed. The book is a totally long, obnoxious book, towards the end I only read the quotations. The movie totally changed the book and made it wonderful. This is a classic, and will be for the rest of time.
From Here to the Box Office
Hollywood at its phony best or worst, take your pick. Who would believe scrawny, introverted Monty Clift as a rough, tough, defiant leather-neck, who beats up on men twice his size. Evidently, the producers, who wagered that a star-struck audience would. Then there's the wholesome, well-scrubbed Donna Reed as a wholesome, well-scrubbed Honolulu hooker, who lives in what appears a Manhattan apartment. If you believe Mother Theresa did outcall, then you might fall for this Hollywood hokum. Let's not forget that notorious surf scene, where Lancaster and Kerr mate like over-heated jellyfish. The question is how do you parody something that's already a joke. And, oh yes, there's Burt Lancaster, clenching full speed toward becoming Tinsel Town's most celebrated great stone face, and a long, long way from his promising noir roots. And poor Deborah Kerr trapped all those years in virginal repression, when there's really a red-hot mama waiting to break out. Finally, there's Frank Sinatra's Maggio, who at least doesn't beat up hulking men twice his size, but does get an award and an afterlife as Las Vegas's shady ambassador to Hollywood, a not uncalculated consequence. Summing up: this is exactly what happened when the studios of the 50's got a hot property and decided to exploit it. And exploit it they did.
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