Film review: From Here to Eternity

Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra return in the powerful 1953 Oscar-winner with its iconic beach kiss. By Peter BradshawMost of the power, fervency and soapy compulsion survives in this new restoration of Fred Zinnemann's 1953 Oscar-winner From Here To Eternity. The scene is an American military base in Hawaii in the months and weeks leading up to Pearl Harbor – and the film's inspired idea is tacitly to bring into parallel the vast, looming historical forces with this social and ...

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