From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity1953

Stars: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Rating: NOT RATED
Runtime: 118 minutes

Here's a model for adapting a novel into a movie. The bestseller by James Jones, a frank and hard-hitting look at military life, could not possibly be made into a film in 1953 without considerably altering its length and bold subject matter. Yet scr… more »



Alma:
Prew, it's true we love each other now, we need each other, but back in the States it might be different.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
That ain't the real reason.

Alma:
You're right, it's not.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
What is the real reason?

Alma:
I -- I won't marry you because I don't want to be the wife of a soldier.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
Well, that... would be about the best I could ever do for you.

Alma:
Because nobody's going to stop me from my plan. Nobody, nothing. Because I want to be proper!

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
Proper.

Alma:
Yes, proper! In another year I'll have enough money saved. Then I'm going to go back to my home town in Oregon, and I'm going to build a house for my mother and myself, and join the country club and take up golf. Then I'll meet the proper man with the proper position, to make a proper wife, and can run a proper home and raise proper children. And I'll be HAPPY because when you're PROPER you're SAFE!

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
You've got guts, honey. I hope you can pull that off.

Alma:
I do mean it when I say I need you. 'Cause I'm lonely. You think I'm lying, don't you?

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

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