Directed by Fred ZinnemannStarring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Philip Ober, Mickey Shaughnessy, Harry Bellaver, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Warden, John Dennis, Merle Travis, Tim Ryan, Arthur Keegan, Barbara Morrison, and Claude Akins
An interesting examination of the soldiers at a pre-war military base called Pearl Harbor, From Here to Eternity provided cinema with one of it's most famous images: that of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing on the beach as the waves crash around them. Beyond this scene, however, lies a very good movie. Montgomery Clift's storyline is much better than Lancaster and Kerr's, so it's interesting that their kissing is the lasting image. Clift, Sinatra, and Reed are all wonderful, and Ernest Borgnine shows some of the promise he would fulfill two years later in Marty. Some movies are only worth seeing for their most famous scene. This certainly isn't one of them.
Other nominees: Julius Caesar (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Roman Holiday (William Wyler), The Robe (Henry Koster), and Shane (George Stevens)
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