From Here to Eternity 1953

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Rapturously received from the moment it was released in 1953, From Here to Eternity remains, half a century later, a singular cinematic experience, one of the landmarks of American film. Read more

A.H. Weiler, New York Times: Out of From Here to Eternity, a novel whose anger and compassion stirred a postwar reading public as few such works have, Columbia and a company of sensitive hands have forged a film almost as towering and persuasive as its source. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Sominex is cheaper and probably safer. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: So clear-eyed and three-dimensional that it makes the recent Pearl Harbor look like a bunch of kids playing dress up. Read more

David Thomson, The New Republic: In From Here to Eternity, you can glimpse an uneasier future for America, with the social wreckage and the pretending. Read more

Kate Cameron, New York Daily News: There isn't a dull moment in the picture. Read more

TIME Magazine: Scriptwriter Daniel Taradash rescued, if not quite a gem, then at least a high-grade industrial diamond from this rough original. Read more

David Jenkins, Time Out: The film is anonymously directed, functionally paced and hysterical at times, though it seduces as a hot-blooded spectacle that stitches emotional detail onto the epic canvas of history. Read more

William Brogdon, Variety: It is an important film from any angle, presenting socko entertainment for big business. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Contemporary audiences may not see why, even in its toned-down simplification of the novel, From Here to Eternity was the most daring movie of 1953, but it remains an acting bonanza. Read more