![]() ![]() It’s still raw, tough dramatic stuff of great entertainment pull for adult ticket buyers. The bawdy vulgarity and the outhouse vocabulary, the pros and non-pros among its easy ladies, and the slambang indictment of Army brass have not been emasculated in the transfer to the screen, but are certainly shown in much better taste for consumption by a broader audience. ![]() Under Buddy Adler’s production guidance it emerges as a sock affair, in many instances a much better motion picture than the novel was a book. It was not an easy task to transfer the Jones novel to the screen and still retain a substantial measure of its dramatic masculinity. The cast names are exceptionally good, the exploitation and word-of-mouth values are topnotch, and the prospects in all playdates are very bright whether special key bookings or general run. ![]() It is an important film from any angle, presenting socko entertainment for big business. The James Jones bestseller, “ From Here to Eternity,” has become an outstanding motion picture in this smash screen adaptation. ![]()
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