poster on linen James Jones' FROM HERE TO ETERNITY 14x22 Belgian LINENBACKED HTF

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Original 1953 first release issue to movie theaters in Belgium, less than a decade after WWII. Rare vintage movie paper sent to film theaters, for marketing purposes. FINE+ condition. Natural age appropriate appearance, with NO VISIBLE pinholes, and natural edgewear. Exciting, colorful and romantic classic imagery. FAST & SAFE DELIVERY.
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1953. Directed by : FRED ZINNEMANN - TAGLINES : "Pouring out of impassioned pages...brawling their way to greatness on the screen!" "The boldest book of our time... Honestly, fearlessly on the screen!" - PLOT SUMMARY : In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love. Novelist James Jones' FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, is the classic 1953 Fred Zinnemann (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) Hawaii romantic World War II (WWII) military melodrama ("Courage! Gallantry! Emotion! Violence! From the boldest best-seller of all!"; "The boldest book of our time... Honestly, fearlessly on the screen!"; "From the stark, bold - yet tender - best seller 5,000,000 readers gasped at!"; "Screen Play by Daniel Taradash"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; about soldiers stationed in Honolulu just before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and their many romances and their conflicts, which results in the deaths of several of the principals, not in warfare) starring Burt Lancaster (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as "Warden... who wouldn't do it... even for her..."), Montgomery Clift (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as "Prew... who wanted to be left alone..."), Deborah Kerr (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; as "Karen... who was looking for a real man..."), Frank Sinatra (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as "Maggio... you just have to laugh at him..."), Donna Reed (winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; as "Lorene... to look at her you'd never guess..."), Philip Ober (as Capt. Holmes), Ernest Borgnine (as Sgt. 'Fatso' Judson), George Reeves (as Sgt. Maylon Stark), Jack Warden (as Cpl. Buckley), and Claude Akins (as Sgt. 'Baldy' Dhom).  BEHIND THE SCENES TRIVIA : Harry Cohn resisted the idea of casting Montgomery Clift as Prewitt as "he was no soldier, no boxer and probably a homosexual." Fred Zinnemann refused to make the film without him. 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." Donna Reed remembered Montgomery Clift's concentration as being "positively violent." Burt Lancaster was so nervous about acting alongside Montgomery Clift that he was physically shaking in their first scene together. Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and author James Jones were very close during the filming, frequently embarking on monumental drinking binges. Clift coached Sinatra on how to play Maggio during their more sober moments, for which Sinatra was eternally grateful. Sadly, the relationship with Clift was not so long-lasting. Three years after From Here to Eternity (1953), Clift was involved in a life-altering car crash that required facial reconstruction and left him addicted to pain medication. This, coupled with his alcoholism, made him a very different person from the actor who played Prewitt. At a party thrown by Sinatra, Clift made a drunken pass at one of the singer's entourage that ended up with him being thrown out of the party and denied access to Sinatra and his inner circle. Montgomery Clift had real difficulty letting the character of Prewitt go after filming was completed and would often turn up drunk in Hollywood drinking establishments with his bugle and Hawaiian shirts. Montgomery Clift's intensity extended to an obsessive drive to have every detail down right. He spent long hours of practice on military drills. He copied Jamie Jones' mannerisms and speech patterns. He insisted on playing his bugle loudly and repeatedly, even though he was dubbed, so that he would accurately appear to be playing it on screen. Fred Zinnemann's wife Renee, said, "He worked so hard at all of this that he was almost worn out by the time they started shooting." If Columbia head Harry Cohn had gotten his way, the film would have starred Aldo Ray as Prewitt, Robert Mitchum or Edmond O'Brien as Warden, Rita Hayworth as Karen, Julie Harris as Lorene and Eli Wallach as Maggio. While posing for cheesecake bathing suit publicity shots, Deborah Kerr quipped, "I feel naked without my tiara." Harry Cohn was so convinced that Deborah Kerr could not be "sexy" enough to play the lead in this film that he almost did not cast her. Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster were romantically involved during filming. The now classic scene between Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in the rushing water on the beach was not written to take place there. The idea to film with the waves hitting them was a last-minute inspiration from director Fred Zinnemann. As scripted, Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster's classic clinch on the beach was to be filmed standing up. It was Lancaster's idea to do it horizontally in the surf. The scene was filmed at Halona Cove on the eastern side of Oahu, near Koko Head Crater and Sandy Beach, and the location became a major tourist attraction for years after. Shot on a schedule of just 42 days. The actual scene where the Japanese fighters fly over the army base, strafing it with machine gun fire, was shot in only half a day. Columbia bought the rights to James Jones' bestseller for only ,000, a relatively low figure mainly because no other studio was prepared to go near such adult material (the book has some homosexual scenes, none of which made it to the film version). Also, as the book ran to over 800 pages, it was generally considered unfilmable. The second biggest grossing film of the year, behind The Robe (1953).  The film went on to gross million, the tenth highest grossing film of the 1950s. Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies.
CAST INCLUDES : Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine, Philip Ober, George Reeves, Mickey Shaughnessy, Jack Warden, Claude Akins, Merle Travis, Harry Bellaver, John Dennis, Barbara Morrison,  Arthur Keegan, Alvin Sargent, Joseph Sargent, Carleton Young, James Jones (wrote novel, uncredited).