This movie represents the first of ten teamings between producer Pancho Kohner and Charles Bronson. The others being The White Buffalo (1977), Love and Bullets (1979), 10 to Midnight (1983), The Evil That Men Do (1984), Murphy's Law (1986), Assassination (1987), Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987), Messenger of Death (1988), and Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989).
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This is one of only nine films to receive more than one Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In this instance, Montgomery Clift and Burt Lancaster were so nominated. The other eight films were Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) for which Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone were all nominated, Giant (1956) for which Rock Hudson and James Dean were nominated, Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) for which Maximilian Schell and Spencer Tracy were nominated, Becket (1964) for which Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton were nominated, Sleuth (1972) for which Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine were nominated, Network (1976) for which Peter Finch and William Holden were nominated, The Dresser (1983) for which Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney and Amadeus (1984) for which F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce were nominated. Of the actors in question, only Schell, Finch (posthumously) and Abraham won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the relevant performances.
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Montgomery Clift told friends he thought Burt Lancaster was a terrible actor and "a big bag of wind" (an attitude perhaps fuelled by his resentment over having to take second billing).
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Future screenwriter Alvin Sargent has a bit part in the film. He was paid $400 for a week's work in Hawaii. Sargent would later go on to win an Oscar for Julia (1977), also directed by Fred Zinnemann.
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Shelley Winters turned down the role of Alma, as she had just given birth to her daughter Vittoria Gassman.
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The title phrase comes originally from Rudyard Kipling's 1892 poem "Gentlemen-Rankers", about soldiers of the British Empire who had "lost [their] way" and were "damned from here to eternity".
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Only the second film to win Oscars for Supporting Actor and Actress for Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed.
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The regimental insignia the soldiers wore on their campaign hats in the film were fictitious, belonging to no actual military organization. The real insignia worn by author James Jones's 27th Infantry Regiment "Wolfhounds," on which the book and film are based, was a vertical rectangle with a left-facing profile of a wolfhound, beneath which was the Latin motto "Nec Aspera Terrent," loosely translated as "Frightened By No Difficulties" or "Hardships Do Not Deter Us."
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Burt Lancaster's anxiety manifested itself in a pattern of difficult behavior, nitpicking over his lines, the camera angles, and his appearance. During breaks in filming he would go off by himself to jog or do push-ups. He argued so much with the normally even-tempered Fred Zinnemann, he finally provoked the director into telling him to go "screw" himself.
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Ernest Borgnine, whilst filming Marty (1955), went into the Bronx to get into character for the role. Whilst there, just walking around, he was harassed badly by some local toughs who were enraged that Borgnine's character had killed Frank Sinatra's character. He was only able to calm them down by explaining that, in reality, he was good friends with Sinatra, as well as being a fellow Italian-American.
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Fred Zinnemann insisted on filming in black and white, as he felt that "color would have made it look trivial". He also eschewed the use of any of the popular new widescreen ratios.
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Fred Zinnemann was very proud of his achievement with this film and regarded it as one of his finest works.
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While posing for cheesecake bathing suit publicity shots, Deborah Kerr quipped, "I feel naked without my tiara."
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At the New Congress Club, Prewitt sits in a distinctive wicker chair with a wide oval back; this same chair shows up eleven years later as Morticia's favorite seat on The Addams Family (1964).
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Burt Lancaster was so nervous about acting alongside Montgomery Clift that he was physically shaking in their first scene together.
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Montgomery Clift threw himself into the character of Prewitt, learning to play the bugle (even though he knew he'd be dubbed) and taking boxing lessons. Fred Zinnemann said, "Clift forced the other actors to be much better than they really were. That's the only way I can put it. He got performances from the other actors, he got reactions from the other actors that were totally genuine."
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
From Here to Eternity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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