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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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