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Monday, December 7, 2020

From Here to Eternity -- December 7, 2020

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79 years ago a sneak attack by forces of the Japanese Empire sank much of the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in the territory of Hawaii. The Japanese Empire came to regret doing this.

From Here to Eternity was directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on the novel by James Jones. The film is set in the time leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Much of the film was shot on location in Schofield Barracks. Montgomery Clift played a Regular Army lifer. Burt Lancaster played his friend. Ernest Borgnine played a sadistic jailer. The movie climaxes with the attack on Pearl Harbor.  

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Montgomery Clift 100 -- October 17, 2020

 

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Actor Montgomery Clift was born 100 years ago today, on 17-October-1920. During World War Two, he was classified as 4-F because of chronic illness. He appeared in three movies with his friend, Elizabeth Taylor. Howard Hawks cast him in Red River. After an auto accident in 1956, he became dependent on pills and alcohol. He died of a heart attack in 1966. 

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