Behind the Scenes
Director
Underappreciated Genius Considering how many great movies he directed, Fred Zinnemann is seriously underappreciated. He won best director for High Noon, From Here to Eternity, and A Man for All Sea...
Screenwriter
Stories from the Frontlines James Jones wrote the book on which From Here to Eternity is based, and so should get a pretty significant amount of credit. Of course, Jones' book ran over 800 pages—...
Production Studio
Cohn Is the Head Initially, the head of Columbia Pictures, Harry Cohn, had a lot of ideas for casting From Here to Eternity—and most of them didn't work out. He wanted Humphrey Bogart to play War...
Production Design
To Stand Up… Or Lie Down?Burnett Guffey won an Academy Award for his cinematography on this movie (he also won one for Bonnie and Clyde in 1967). Guffey filmed a lot of film noirs, and he seems t...
Music (Score)
Dog Soldier Soundtrack George Duning composed the score for From Here to Eternity, which earned him an Oscar nomination. He was a storied composer who ended up being nominated for Oscars five diffe...
Fandoms
From Here to Eternity has a "fandom" in the sense that a lot of people really like it. But it doesn't have a fandom the way Star Wars or the Indiana Jones movies do: little kids are still dressing...