Fred Zinnemann's film adapts James Jones's novel about soldiers at a Hawaii army base in the months before Pearl Harbor, softening the book's portrait of army brutality to win the army's cooperation.
Film· 1953· War
From Here to Eternity
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- Attack on Pearl Harbor
The film follows soldiers stationed in Hawaii in 1941 and ends with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.