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{{Short description|1953 film directed by Fred Zinnemann}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = From Here to Eternity
| image          = From Here to Eternity (1953 poster).jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Fred Zinnemann]]
| producer       = [[Buddy Adler]]
| based_on       = {{based on|''[[From Here to Eternity (novel)|From Here to Eternity]]''|[[James Jones (author)|James Jones]]}}
| screenplay     = [[Daniel Taradash]]
| starring       = {{ubl|[[Burt Lancaster]]|[[Montgomery Clift]]|[[Deborah Kerr]]|[[Donna Reed]]|[[Frank Sinatra]]|}}
| music          = [[George Duning]], [[Morris Stoloff]]
| cinematography = [[Burnett Guffey]]
| editing        = [[William A. Lyon]]
| color_process  = [[Black and white]]
| studio         = [[Columbia Pictures]]
| distributor    = Columbia Pictures
| released       = {{Film date|1953|8|5|}}
| runtime        = 118 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $1.7–2.5 million<ref name =Numbers/><ref>{{Cite news|last=Webster |first=David Kenyon |title=Film Fare: Hollywood producers concentrate on fewer, more lavish pictures, theatre owners complain, but studios' profits are the best in year's Genghis Khan and Ben Hur |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=July 13, 1954 |page=1}}</ref>
| gross          = $30.5 million<ref name ="Numbers">{{cite web|url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/From-Here-to-Eternity |title=Box Office Information for 'From Here to Eternity' |website=The Numbers |access-date=April 12, 2012}}</ref>
}}

'''''From Here to Eternity''''' is a 1953 American romantic [[Drama (film and television)#War drama|war drama]] film directed by [[Fred Zinnemann]] and written by [[Daniel Taradash]], based on the 1951 [[From Here to Eternity (novel)|novel of the same name]] by [[James Jones (author)|James Jones]]. It deals with the tribulations of three [[United States Army]] soldiers, played by [[Burt Lancaster]], [[Montgomery Clift]], and [[Frank Sinatra]], stationed on [[Hawaii]] in the months leading up to the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]]. [[Deborah Kerr]] and [[Donna Reed]] portray the women in their lives. The supporting cast includes [[Ernest Borgnine]], [[Philip Ober]], [[Jack Warden]], [[Mickey Shaughnessy]], [[Claude Akins]], and [[George Reeves]].

It won 8 [[Academy Awards]] out of 13 nominations, including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] (Fred Zinnemann), [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Adapted Screenplay]], [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Supporting Actor]] (Frank Sinatra), and [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Supporting Actress]] (Donna Reed).<ref name="Oscars1954">{{Cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1954 |title=The 26th Academy Awards (1954) Nominees and Winners |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=May 31, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093858/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1954.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> The film's title originates from [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s 1892 poem "[[Gentleman ranker#Kipling's poem|Gentlemen-Rankers]]", about soldiers of the [[British Empire]] who had "lost [their] way" and were "damned from here to eternity".

In 2002, ''From Here to Eternity'' was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Librarian of Congress Adds 25 Films to National Film Registry|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-02-176/librarian-of-congress-adds-25-films-to-national-film-registry/2002-12-17/|date=December 16, 2002|access-date=2020-10-02|website=Library of Congress}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|access-date=2020-10-02|website=Library of Congress}}</ref>