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From Here to Eternity
This 1953 Best Picture winner, which also earned Frank Sinatra a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as well as six other Oscars, is the template for Michael Bay’s 2001 movie Pearl Harbor , which won none. The title comes from a Rudyard Kipling poem about soldiers “damned from here to eternity .” But the dramatic title doesn’t fix the main problem, which is that just like Bay’s movie, this is a dull melodrama that’s briefly elevated by historical events crashing in during the final m
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