From Here to Eternity | Film review

Fifty-eight years ago, I read James Jones's lengthy novel during my first six weeks of basic training as a national service infantryman. I was still in the army in 1954 when Fred Zinnemann's expertly wrought movie condensed its 860 pages to two hours of screentime, craftily getting around the Hollywood Production Code and persuading the US army to collaborate on the production.Set in the 1930s in Hawaii, From Here to Eternity culminates in the assault on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. But it i...

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