From Here To Eternity [DVD] [1953]
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Parental Guidance Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Release date: Monday 14th of January 2002 Starring: Director(s): Format: Black & White, Dubbed, Full Screen, PAL, Number of discs: 1 Region code: 2 Running time: 114 minutes Language: Arabic (Subtitled) Language: Bulgarian (Subtitled) Language: Czech (Subtitled) Language: Danish (Subtitled) Language: Dutch (Subtitled) Language: English (Subtitled) Language: Finnish (Subtitled) Language: French (Subtitled) Language: Greek (Subtitled) Language: Hebrew (Subtitled) Language: Hungarian (Subtitled) Language: Icelandic (Subtitled) Language: Italian (Subtitled) Language: Norwegian (Subtitled) Language: Polish (Subtitled) Language: Portuguese (Subtitled) Language: Romanian (Subtitled) Language: Spanish (Subtitled) Language: Swedish (Subtitled) Language: Turkish (Subtitled) Language: English (Original Language) Language: French (Dubbed) Language: German (Dubbed) Language: Italian (Dubbed) Language: Spanish (Dubbed) |
On the DVD: The black and white film is not anamorphically enhanced but presented full frame in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1, although the transfer is well done and the picture is pretty sharp. Sound is 2.0 mono rather than the standard 5.1 reworking of the audio track, and it works. The dialogue is clear without any noticeable hiss. There's a 22-minute "making of" documentary, which doesn't really do justice to the film and contains very little information of interest. Along with this is Fred Zinnemann's As I See It, an extract from the director's home video footage from the shoot. You also get the theatrical trailer, but the best feature is the audio commentary, by Fred Zinnemann's son Tim and screenwriter Alvin Sargent, which has some fantastic detail about the struggle between director and studio-head Harry Cohn over casting, along with the run-ins with the censor and US military over the "inflammatory nature" of the film.--Kristen Bowditch
RRP: £19.99
Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
From Here to Eternity offers a much more heartfelt interpretation of the event that propelled the United States into World War II than any film made in recent years. Here there are no angst-ridden scenes where "true love" returns from the dead, no costly CGI and definitely no Hallmark happy ending. This is a film about illicit sex, military machismo and tragic loss of love, friendship and ultimately life. The filmmakers did, however, have to make some compromises when adapting James Jones's novel: Alma becomes a "hostess" rather than a prostitute and the very downbeat ending, where Captain Holmes is essentially rewarded for his brutality by the military, was replaced with the morally acceptable punishment of his actions by a more self-aware army. Although Private Robert E Lee Pruitt's story provides the meat of the film, there are other subplots woven into the narrative, including a couple of doomed love affairs, which explore themes of adultery and social acceptance. Sergeant Warden (Burt Lancaster) begins a torrid affair with the commander's wife Karen (Deborah Kerr) leading to one of the most famous moments in movie history--the "clinch in the surf". From then on everything is challenged. Love, honour and eventually whether you should conform or stand up for what you believe in. At the end the couples are left wondering about the future of their relationship, but fate decides for them as the Japanese launch their attack on Pearl Harbor, leaving us with one of the most dramatic and moving endings of any war film.
Mr
Review date: 2009-07-02 Rating: 2 out of 10
ONe of rhe worst thngs I've done in my life.
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Reviews
From Here To Eternity [DVD] [1953]
Review date: 2009-06-26 Rating: 8 out of 10
Purchased this item to a retired friend of mine, and he felt nostalgic watching it again, remembering old days
remembering old days, good memories and good times. Thank you
What a story to dine out on !
Review date: 2009-06-23 Rating: 10 out of 10
Entertaining as they may be, forget all the other movies purporting to dramatise the 1941 attack on the american pacific fleet at pearl harbour. This film depicts the event as it must have been - this is the real thing! Made only a dozen years after the actual event, this is a stripped down, streamlined production. The movie rejuventated Sinatra's flagging career, brought Monty Clift to the public's attention and reminded us all of Lancaster, Kerr , Borgine and Donna Reed, all beautifully cast in their roles. There are a few storylines threading their way through the film but the attack by the Japanese is the highlight of the movie and is a fantastically filmed event (certainly for 1953). It is one of the two highpoints of the movie; the other being the iconic romp in the surf by passionate drill sergeant Lancaster and a demur, frustrated Kerr. I like to think that each, or both of them, spent many years dining out on that moment!
A classic that lives up to its reputation
Review date: 2007-11-29 Rating: 10 out of 10
From the days when doorstop novels (or at least large chunks of them) were turned into films rather than mini-series, From Here to Eternity may be toned down to please both the censors and the US Army, whose co-operation was vital to the film, but it's still a superb piece of film-making that slips in a few powerful punches between the lines.
Set in Pearl Harbor in the months leading up to the Japanese attack, it focuses on two professional soldiers: Prewitt (Montgomery Clift), a hard-headed ex-boxer given 'the treatment' by his commanding officer to force him to fight in the regimental boxing championships, and the company's Top Sergeant (Burt Lancaster), who is having an affair with the officer's frigid wife (Deborah Kerr).
Daniel Taradish's screenplay is a masterpiece of snappy construction, perfectly mirrored by Fred Zinnemann's directorial style that brings out both the toughness and the sentiment with a convincing lack of sensationalism. And what a cast: Lancaster a convincing mixture of toughness and emotional vulnerability, a surprisingly sexy Kerr, Donna Reed playing tough against type, Borgnine at his meanest and a wonderful array of character actors. Clift may make an unlikely boxer, but his performance is one of his best, as is that of Sinatra, always under-rated as an actor on those occasions when he made an effort, as his doomed best friend Maggio.
With a good DVD transfer, this is let down by the extras - only a teaser trailer, a making-of featurette that runs a full two minutes (!!!), a brief extract from a documentary about the director and an audio commentary by Tim Zinnemann and Alvin Sargent. This is still well worth adding to your collection, though. Classic films often don't live up to their reputations. This one does.
A Favourite
Review date: 2007-07-07 Rating: 10 out of 10
Great story, great filming and great acting. One of the best classics from Hollywood. A must own for film freaks. Most of it are already mentioned in reviews under this review. :-D
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Donna Reed
Frank Sinatra
Deborah Kerr
Montgomery Clift
Burt Lancaster
Creators:
Burt Lancaster (Primary Contributor)
Montgomery Clift (Primary Contributor)
Burnett Guffey (Cinematographer)
Floyd Crosby (Cinematographer)
William A. Lyon (Editor)
Buddy Adler (Producer)
Daniel Taradash (Writer)
James Jones (Writer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
EAN: 5035822025431
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Black & White, Dubbed, Full Screen, PAL,
Release date: 2002-01-14
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Running time: 114 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1954-02-06
Language: Arabic (Subtitled)
Language: Bulgarian (Subtitled)
Language: Czech (Subtitled)
Language: Danish (Subtitled)
Language: Dutch (Subtitled)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: Finnish (Subtitled)
Language: French (Subtitled)
Language: Greek (Subtitled)
Language: Hebrew (Subtitled)
Language: Hungarian (Subtitled)
Language: Icelandic (Subtitled)
Language: Italian (Subtitled)
Language: Norwegian (Subtitled)
Language: Polish (Subtitled)
Language: Portuguese (Subtitled)
Language: Romanian (Subtitled)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: Swedish (Subtitled)
Language: Turkish (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: French (Dubbed)
Language: German (Dubbed)
Language: Italian (Dubbed)
Language: Spanish (Dubbed)
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