From Here to Eternity [Superbit]

Director: Fred Zinnemann Fred Zinnemann

Overview

Fred Zinnemann's classic adaptation of James Jones' story of U.S. soldiers in Hawaii shortly before the outbreak of World War II gets an optimal presentation in this DVD edition. This release of From Here to Eternity has been mastered in the Superbit process, which uses a much higher rate of digital information sampling in order to create a sharper and more accurate image. The film has been transferred to disc in its original full-screen aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and the audio has been mastered in both Dolby Digital Mono and DTS Mono. The dialogue is in English, with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai. No additional bonus materials have been included.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/04/2003
UPC:	0043396008687
Original Release:	1953
Rating:	NR
Source:	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMT
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	1:58:00

Special Features

This single, high-resolution Superbit™ DVD includes no extras. The space on the disc typically used for special features is devoted instead to optimizing the quality of the movie's image and sound. Other technical specifications: digitally mastered audio and video; Original full screen presentation; Audio: Original English mono, DTS from upmixed 5.1; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Poruguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai.

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Burt Lancaster	Sgt. Milton Warden
Montgomery Clift	Robert E. Lee Prewitt
Deborah Kerr	Karen Holmes
Frank Sinatra	Pvt. Angelo Maggio
Donna Reed	Alma Lorene
Ernest Borgnine	Sgt. Judson
Philip Ober	Capt. Dana Holmes
Jack Warden	Cpl. Buckley
George Reeves	Sgt. Maylon Stark
Harry Bellaver	Mazzioli
John Dennis	Sgt. Ike Galovitch
Tim Ryan	Sgt. Pete Karelsen
Barbara Morrison	Mrs. Kipfer
Kristine Miller	Georgette,Actor
Jean Willes	Annette
Merle Travis	Sal Anderson
Arthur Keegan	Treadwell
Robert Karnes	Sgt. Turp Thornhill
Bob Wilke	Sgt. Henderson,Sgt. Henderson
Douglas Henderson	Cpl. Champ Wilson
Don Dubbins	Friday Clark
John Cason	Cpl. Paluso
John Bryant	Capt. Ross
Joan Shawlee	Sandra
Angela Stevens	Jean
Mary Carver	Nancy
Vicki Bakken	Suzanne
Margaret Barstow	Roxanne
Delia Salvi	Billie
Willis Bouchey	Lieutenant Colonel,Lieutenant Colonel
Al Sargent	Nair,Nair [uncredited],Actor
Weaver Levy	Bartender
Tyler McVey	Maj. Stern
John Patrick Veitch	Actor
William Lundmark	Bill
Robert Healy	Soldier
Brick Sullivan	Military Guard
Moana Gleason	Rose, Waitress
Freeman Lusk	Col. Wood
Robert Pike	Maj. Bonds
Carleton Young	Col. Ayres
Fay Roope	Gen. Slater
Louise Saraydar	Actor
Joe Roach	Actor
Norman Wayne	Actor
Mack Chandler	Actor
Edward Laguna	Actor
John Veitch	Actor
John Davis	Actor
Carey Leverette	Actor
Allen Pinson	Actor
Guy Way	Actor
Manny Klein	Actor
Elaine DuPont	Minor Role
James Jones	Composer,Actor
George Duning	Composer
Morris Stoloff	Composer
Mickey Shaughnessy	Actor
Claude Akins	Sgt. 'Baldy' Dhom

Technical Credits

Daniel Taradash

Fred Zinnemann	Director
Daniel Taradash	Screenwriter
Buddy Adler	Producer
Lewis J. Rachmil	Producer
John Cason	Stunts

Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Start [2:15]
2. Sgt. Warden [6:56]
3. Mrs. Holmes [1:42]
4. Holmes' Sweet Home [1:51]
5. The Company Boxers [3:05]
6. The Treatment [4:08]
7. Rainy Day Woman [10:41]
8. The Princess Lorene [4:51]
9. On the Beach [6:22]
10. Prewitt's Story [3:37]
11. "Re-enlistment Blues" [:37]
12. In the Gym [6:30]
13. "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" [1:59]
14. Gonna cut His Heart Out [6:56]
15. The Kalakaua Inn [3:20]
16. Waiting for a Movie Star [2:57]
17. "Hello, Tough Monkey" [:46]
18. Two Couples With Plans [9:48]
19. Prewitt vs. Galovitch [6:31]
20. Two Bumps in the Road [4:07]
21. "I Escaped" [1:54]
22. "Taps" [2:22]
23. A Word With Fatso [4:18]
24. Holmes Resigns [5:41]
25. December 7, 1941 [4:03]
26. Warden Shoots Back [4:32]
27. Prewitt's Return [3:40]
28. Returning Stateside [2:10]

Menu

Side #1 --
   Play Movie
   Audio Set Up
      English DTS
      English Mono
   Subtitles
      English
      French/Français
      Spanish/Español
      Portuguese/Português
      Chinese
      Korean
      Thai
      Subtitles Off
   Scene Selections

Editorial Reviews

There were few movies greeted with more anticipation than Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity when it opened in 1953. Adapted from one of the best-selling novels of the previous 10 years, it was a film for which everyone had high expectations. It lived up to all of them and then some, adding a new level of violence and frankness to popular dramatic films just when the public was ready to accept these elements (though the movie couldn't even hint at an aspect that James Jones' novel mentioned almost at its outset: the homosexual advances that Pruett parried from his former sergeant, resulting in his transfer to a rifle company). Burt Lancaster, who'd previously established himself as a hero-victim in a series of films noirs made under the auspices of Universal and as a costume hero in a pair of Warner Brothers period adventure films (The Flame And The Arrow, The Crimson Pirate), transformed himself into the quintessential macho leading man with his performance; Montgomery Clift gave the performance of his life as Robert E. Lee Pruett, unwilling boxer and trumpet player; ex-navy enlisted man Ernest Borgnine dominated every scene he was in as Sgt. Judson, the most vicious enlisted man seen on screen in a mainstream American movie up to that time; Deborah Kerr, previously known for her plucky, lady-like roles, got to play an unabashedly sexual woman, and a married one at that; Donna Reed, cast against type as the prostitute with delusions of her own, gave the most honest and wrenching performance of her career; and Frank Sinatra, cast against all prevailing wisdom in Hollywood (and beating out Eli Wallach for the choicest supporting role in Hollywood that year), became a great actor overnight as the doomed Maggio. Even Merle Travis, a veritable god among guitar players but an anonymous figure to most filmgoers, got a memorable scene and song ("Re-Enlistment Blues") out of the film. From Here to Eternity raised the bar for realism (and the genuine, jagged, if ugly side of life) in war movies, and in movies in general. Bruce Eder

All Movie Guide

There were few movies greeted with more anticipation than Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity when it opened in 1953. Adapted from one of the best-selling novels of the previous ten years, it was a film for which everyone had high expectations. It lived up to all of them and then some, adding a new level of violence and frankness to popular dramatic films just when the public was ready to accept these elements. (However, the movie couldn't even hint at an aspect that James Jones' novel mentioned almost at its outset: the homosexual advances that Pruett parried from his former sergeant, resulting in his transfer to a rifle company.) Burt Lancaster, who'd previously established himself as a hero-victim in a series of films noirs made under the auspices of Universal and as a costume hero in a pair of Warner Bros. period adventure films (The Flame and the Arrow, The Crimson Pirate), transformed himself into the quintessential macho leading man with his performance; Montgomery Clift gave the performance of his life as Robert E. Lee Pruett, unwilling boxer and trumpet player; ex-navy enlisted man Ernest Borgnine dominated every scene he was in as Sgt. Judson, the most vicious enlisted man seen onscreen in a mainstream American movie up to that time; Deborah Kerr, previously known for her plucky, lady-like roles, got to play an unabashedly sexual woman, and a married one at that; Donna Reed, cast against type as the prostitute with delusions of her own, gave the most honest and wrenching performance of her career; and Frank Sinatra, cast against all prevailing wisdom in Hollywood (and beating out Eli Wallach for the choicest supporting role in Hollywood that year), became a great actor overnight as the doomed Maggio. Even Merle Travis, a veritable god among guitar players but an anonymous figure to most filmgoers, got a memorable scene and song ("Re-Enlistment Blues") out of the film. From Here to Eternity raised the bar for realism (and the genuine, jagged, if ugly side of life) in war movies, and in movies in general.

All Movie Guide - Bruce Eder