You've got to smile a bit at the very end of this scene...after the beautiful way "Taps" is played, Prewitt hands the bugle back to the regular bugler...who looks down at his bugle as if to say "I never knew it could sound like that"...kudos to that actor, as he manages to convey just how special this rendition of "Taps" is. One of the top ten scenes ever in a film
My father was at Schofield barracks during World War II and the only thing he told me was the movie captures peace time army life perfectly. When I hear Montgomery cliff playing taps in the movie it reminds me of my father. All these men will soon be sent to Guadalcanal in the first campaign of the pacific forming the 25th lightning division.
My mother was 22, a registered nurse and volunteered for WW II. She was initially stationed at Tripler General Hospital in Hawaii. She was elevated to the rank of captain in the Woman's Army Nurse Corp. She went on in 1944 to Saipan and then to Okinawa tending to the wounded from those fierce battles. She came back and immediately went to Cleveland and helped in the finding of the polio vaccine and while raising a family in the early 1950s, she was the directress of nursing at a major cancer hospital. She is my definition of a hero.
I could watch this movie every night.......Hollywood has sure forgot how to make a great movie over the last 50 years. No nudity. No profanity. No CGI graphics.
This is one of the greatest films ever made. 1953 academy award for best picture winner. I loved Stalig 17 and William Holden but Montgomery Clift should have won best actor In my opinion. Even Burt Lancaster was great. I loved frank Sinatra, Debrah Kerr has always been a favorite of mine in Cary Grant Movies, of course you can’t forget Donna Reed. Ol fatso Earnest who is a legend. Taps gives me chills every time I hear it and it makes me cry a military funerals I have attended.
I am 54 years old. I highly remember any scene of a movie I watched in my childhood. I watched this when I was 5 (when I was circumcised ) and remember crying. This is such a scene.
This scene, the way the instrument is played, was a total and absolute highpoint for me in the film - I've never heard it played like that before. It's stuck in my memory for years now. What a treat....
This has always been my favorite movie...and this scene is special to me because I was in the military for 26 years. I spent 2 tours in Vietnam and 7 years total in Southeast Asia. "Taps" has a special meaning to a GI and this is the most beautiful rendition I have ever heard. By the way the sound you hear is not a Bugle but a Trumpet played by the master of the trumpet "Harry James".
Non c'è nulla da fare: tutte le volte che l'ascolto mi vengono le lacrime agli occhi! Sono uno dei vecchi che una vita fa fecero il servizio militare...LA NAJA! 😢 Erano tempi più puliti di adesso...2023 😮
GOD BLESS ALL THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN LIMBS, AND SOME, THEIR VERY LIVES, FOR THE FREEDOMS THAT SO MANY HERE TAKE FOR GRANTED. TO THOSE WHO GAVE SO MUCH, IN PERSERVING OUR FREEDOMS, I THANK THEM IN BOTH HUMILITY & PRAYER.
As a Veteran, "Taps" has a special meaning and significance few who never served could understand. This scene, one of my absolute favorites from all military films, never fails to rekindle the memories, the faces and names of those brothers and sisters from every generation who gave their last full measure; evoking unbidden emotions even on this old-school NCO's face.
Superman! George Reeves is in this scene and had a number of small roles back in the day. Monty was a very gifted actor. One of the best, and certainly in the top two or three method actors. Great actor and as handsome as they come. I like this movie but my favorite movie featuring Monty is a "Place In The Sun" with Elizabeth Taylor. Lordy, what a pair! They heated up the screen big time!
Esta película la ví en mi adolescencia y me marcó de por vida como una de las mejores películas que he visto, si no la mejor, y con un plantel de actores dificilmente mejorables. Además el actor que mejor valoré: Burt Lancanter. Yo creo que casi todos los espectadores teníamos un nudo en la garganta, cuando no unas lágrimas sobre las mejillas, mientras tocaba Montgomery Clift.
Happy Birthday Montgomery Clifft.He stayed in the Roosevelt Hotel. Some guess can hear him playing this tune. I loved your cute little bushy eye browes.
He learned to play the beagul for the movie. He did a very good job. I in truth would have given the acdemy award to Montgomery Clift if it had been up to me. But then again I was born long after this was made. I'm not sure even if my parents were around yet. But this is a very touching scene. One of my favorites in the movie.
Ah, this scene makes me study trumpet. So i bougth a one today, cheap Yamaha. I'm sure that I will play well soon the theme of movie ,from here to heaven.
Dad, WWII generation, turned me onto this movie, along with Shane, when I was a boy. I was utterly enthralled and it launched me into a lifetime of WWII study and time in army, etc. Finally made it to Pearl Harbor in 12/06. cried when I saw the old vets. Met two old gents from the old WVA. Gone now for sure. Tip: Read "Children of battleship Row," by Joan Zuber Earle (a 10 y.o. girl living with her USMC father on Ford Island for the year leading up to 12/7/41). Stunning account.
The irony of the scene is that this is Prewitt's final victory over the commander. No one...NO ONE...on that base was going to force him to fight. He had earned that much respect.
Soberbia la película increíble interpretación de Mongomery clift, Frank Sinatra, Burt ncaster, Ernest Borgnine, todos sublime . Oscar Frank Sinatra y Donna Reed también mejor director, mejor guión , mejor fotografía y mejor sonido. se merece más actor principal Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift , mejor actriz Principal Deborah Kerr, mejor banda sonora y por mejor vestuario. LA RECOMIENDO EN MAYUSCULAS, ES SEPTIMO ARTE Y COMO ES ACTUAR EN UNA PELICULA. Ernest Borgnine sublime increíble , gano su Oscar en Marty, preciosa película maravillosa interpretación . Un saludo
I have been listening to various videos to find the correct "Taps". Until I realized that they are all correct! Even the same person will likely sound slightly different from one play to another I surmise that that is what makes Taps even more beautiful. The deceased is honoured with Taps which is as unique to them as it is universal to all. The difference in how it was played is how the Soldiers guessed who played Taps.
One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies. Monty was "coached" by a trumpeter who showed him what to do to make his "playing" look authentic. A depressing movie but a great one!
A lot of characters from the book get left out of the movie - Blues Berry, Jack, Isaac Bloom and Violet Ugure, to name the most important ones. The movie is a delicious snack, but the book is an extremely satisfying buffet.
De aquí a la eternidad, así recordare este film, excelente película, con actores brillantes de entonces, rodada en 1953 con Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra
Very handsome n talented actor of golden era.Died at young age.This is from award winning movie From here to Eternity.He was at his best in the movie The Heiress dirtected by William Wyler co starred with Olivia De Haviland.
Johnnyboy792 Same thing. And I LOVE “Stalag 17” and Bill Holden. But for all the Oscars this movie (deservedly) won, the fact that Monty’s performance didn’t is astonishing.
And the story goes that Holden himself felt Clift earned it and that he (Holden) only won the Oscar for Stalag 17 because the Academy realized they had stiffed him by not giving him the Oscar earlier for "Sunset Boulevard".
i saw this movie in my native Denmark in 1962 or so. One of my favorite movies, and Montgomery Clift one of my favorite actors. Have also read the book. Movie and book both superb and realistic.
When I first saw this movie years ago I cried with Montgomery Cliff but stopped because if anybody had to pay back Fatso Judson for Maggio's death it was Prewitt.
This is the bugle call, "Taps", which was composed by the Union Army Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield, who commanded 3rd Bgd, 1st Div in the V Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Butterfield wrote the tune at Harrison's Landing, Virginia, 1862 after a bloody battle in which his division suffered severe losses.
I love Montgomery Clift, this was so sad. OMG, when the tears were running down his cheeks, I cried. He was such a good actor. He was excellent in the movie, I confess.
Yes he did learn to play, but the taps in this scene is not by Clift he however wanted to make sure his mouth movements looked realistic and they surely do. Love the lengths this guy would go through to get little things right.
Voilà c'est sûrement cette image que tous ces fans comme moi garderont de lui, cette scène est un pur drame et le moment le plus douloureux du film, bye bye Monty God bless you !
why cant movies like this be made today? instead of cheap brain dead celebs trying to act. This was truly a golden age, great acting 7 films had a meaning then.
Oh, I highly recommend it. James Jones is a wonderful writer - heavily influenced by Ernest Hemingway, but still distinctly himself. I found it satisfying to have read the whole trilogy - first From Here to Eternity, then The Thin Red Line, then Whistle. Don't read Whistle if you hate sad endings.
Yes, and the book itself a raw masterpiece. One of the rare times where the movie understandably couldn't be the same as the book, but the author understood. James Jones in fact helped write "Reinlistment Blues" for the movie.
@skin1912 : You're right! He wasn't blowing the bugle at all! Wow, I bet he wasn't actually stabbed later on in the movie, or shot to death either! And since Ernie Borgnine is still alive he didn't stab him to death in an alley fight, so this movie is just chock full of lies. I've also got it on pretty good authority that Burt Lancaster didn't shoot down a Japanese plane on 12/07/41, but I'm still doing research on that. I'll get back to you when I figure it all out.
I actually found the woman and talked to her on the phone about her book and experience. She was a bit taken aback but I HAD to talk to her if she was alive (she was doing well at 80, with six kids [one who lives in my home town on the other side of the country from Joan!!] when I spoke to her). Must read this true story of her paradise lost. The quarters she and family lived in is STILL on "Nob Hill" on Ford Island. You can see it on google. WWII exploded 150 yds from her window. Incredible.
