From either On this text to Eternity is a 1953 movie based on the James Jones novel in which characters run through average bouts of intimidatiin & unfaithfulness on a military base in the times preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Around 2002 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" & selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

A film won eight Oscars: Academy Award for Best Picture - Buddy Adler, producer Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Frank Sinatra Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Donna Reed Academy Award for Best Cinematography, black-and-white - Burnett Guffey Academy Award for Directing - Fred Zinnemann Best Cutting - William A. Lyon Best Audio recording - John P. Livadary Best Writing, Screenplay - Daniel Taradash

It received nominations for the farther 5 Oscars: Academy Award for Best Actor - Montgomery Clift Academy Award for Best Actor - Burt Lancaster Academy Award for Best Actress - Deborah Kerr Academy Award for Costume Design, black-and-white - Jean Louis Best Music Score - George Duning and Morris Stoloff

Among a cast members while forgoing Oscar nominations come Philip Ober, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Warden, and Merle Travis. A novel's creator experienced an uncredited minor role in the film.

Legend has it that Frank Sinatra had a role in the moving-picture show because of his speculated Mafia connections, and that this was the basis for a similar subplot in The Godfather.

A moving-picture show was too remade as a TV miniseries in 1979.

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