From Here to Eternity Year: 1953 Directed by: Fred Zinnemann Starring: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine Why it's
essential: This movie has nestled into the American imagination as one
of the great screen romances — that famous scene
of Lancaster and Kerr kissing in the sand and
surf on a Hawaiian beach is
part of the great indelible Hollywood tableau — but most don't realize that this is a movie about soldiers stationed in Hawaii in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor.