![]() ![]() Its subsequent success at the 1954 Oscars, where it won eight Academy Awards, including best picture, director, screenplay, camerawork and both supporting actor awards, was a sweep not seen since It Happened One Night in 1935 or repeated until One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest in 1976. That's not altogether surprising, given the success of Jones's novel, which required extensive bowdlerisation by screenwriter Daniel Taradash before it could be filmed at all. ![]() "T he boldest book of our time … honestly, fearlessly on the screen!" That was how the movie posters for From Here To Eternity touted Fred Zinnemann's adaptation of James Jones's bestselling novel dealing with army life in Hawaii before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941.įrom Here to Eternity still stands up very well. ![]()
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