Why We Love From Here to Eternity 

One of my all time favorite movies. I'm a big Montgomery Clift fan, seen several of his movies, this was his best. From here to Eternity is like Casablanca, every scene works. I also read the book, and of course there so much more in the book than the movie, but I still love the movie. I saw the movie first and then I read the book.

Excellent analysis. I have often thought ''From Here to Eternity'' just doesn't get the credit it deserves from the average movie-goer.

Reading about the making of this film and comments from all the major actors and director highlights how absolutely crucial Montgomery Clift was to the great success of From Here To Eternity. Accepting his Oscar he noted "there would be no From Here to Eternity" without Monty. Zinnemann also said he raised the performance of every other actor because he cared so much. And he managed all this while suffering alcoholism and prescription medication addiction. I can never say enough about Clift's talent, absolute dedication to his work and strength of character DESPITE w his illnesses, mental and physical.

I remember the first time I watched from here to eternity I was 15 years old this movie is definitely great Montgomery cliff was great in the movie I totally understand why frank Sinatra won his oscar for the movie he definitely proves he can act

From Here To Eternity is brilliant! Great video!

I was about 18 when this movie came out and to this day, for a variety of reasons, consider it to be one of the best I've ever seen and would have to be of of my top ten...even if it was shot in black and blacker.

Also must give great credit to director Fred Zinnemann another brilliant unsung talent from this era, even despite his two directing oscars

You could spend more than half the video gushing over Montgomery Clift’s performance 😂💙 And this is a great video thanks!

01:43 the other soldier with Montgomery Clift is played by Alvin Sargent, who won a an Oscar for writing the screenplay for JULIA(1977) starring Jane Fonda. At 12:30 that shot soldier is also played by Sargent.

My personal WW2 film trilogy: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY(1953) TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH(1949) THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES(1946)

Thank you from Amsterdam.

You've got to watch "From Here to Obscurity" with Sid Caesar; and also watch Sid Caesar's sendup of "Streetcar". He was better than Brando. Sid Caesar was the comedy genius of the century.

"The event movie for people to see". I'm fairly certain that statement is kind of true in so much as it was the biggest movie of the year that didn't involve Bobby Driscoll taking the Darling children to Neverland or Richard Burton winning the Jesus robe in a dice game.

1953 Best Actor Oscar nominees: William Holden - Stalag 17, Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar, Montgomery Clift/Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity, Richard Burton - The Robe

I always thought Donna Reed was miscast as the prostitute, Lorene. A much better choice would have been Linda Darnell, who to my mind would have been absolutely perfect for the part. Won an Oscar though. But I'd argue, in that part, so would have Darnell. The film has its faults, but not many. Maggio, the part played by Sinatra was a kid in his teens in the book, while Frank was pushing forty, and looked it. Ancient for a Private. However he does a great job playing a guy who can't sing in that scene where he's putting on his civies in the barracks, though. A guy appropriately nicknamed "The Voice", perhaps the best male vocalist of his century. And maybe *that's* what got him the Oscar. Clift, despite training, as Howard Hawks remarked when working with him on Red River, could never throw a proper punch. So during his fight with Sgt. Galovich he's shot in close-ups of his face, fists clenched in a suggestion of fighting, but in the long view with all the men gathered around the two fighters, Clift is substituted by a too obvious double in the shot. Lancaster is perfect as Warden, and Kerr's unconventional casting as Karen Holmes is a surprisingly sexy stroke of genius. Good job.

I like the characters from the 1940s, well at least they kept showing the 1940’s dates on screen.

I forgot that George reeves is in the movie

I do not think Donna Reed's performance was worthy of an Oscar though it was pretty good, Deborah was ofcourse brillant, would've appreciated more scenes of her. Her scene with Burt Lancaster on the beach is iconic. Wish the background score was a bit more naunced.

What is the excited voice saying over the loudspeaker @ 12:30?

All this analysis but no one has been able to tell me why an E-7 has a diamond. And why didn't he want to be an officer? He made it to 1st Sgt., was he just lazy?

I didn’t see any bi-sexual

I guess I'm the odd man out - I can't stand Frank Sinatra in this movie. (Don't really like him generally either)