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Best actor: Burt Lancaster, for his role as Sergeant Warden, in From Here to Eternity.
From Here to Eternity (Columbia). James Jones's novel about the peacetime Army, sweated down to a fine, muscular picture; with Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra (TIME, Aug. 10).
"From Here to Eternity" cleans up James Jones' novel without dissiapating its impact. Frank Sinatra is fine, as are Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, and Deborah Kerr. At the Capitol.
Television has been even kinder to Hollywood, supplying moviemen with such hit films as Bing Crosby's Little Boy Lost and José Ferrer's Anything Can Happen (both originally shown on TV Playhouse), and Rosalind Russell's Never Wave at a Wac (from Schlitz Playhouse). Last...
Not so with Eternity. The acting of Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, and every single supporting player confront the spectator with real people. The dialogue, much of it taken directly from the book, allows them to talk like normal people. The screenplay skillfully moves them back and...