Okay, I was hard on the Debra Kerr character. Nobody asks for the values they're indoctrinated with. Also, she did suffer a terrible loss with the stillbirth. And her options were not many in the 1940's. I'm judging her from today's perspective. An unexamined life may not be worth living, but it's excrutiating difficult to buck one's belief system, even if one never asked for the beliefs one holds in the first place. Lives of quiet desperation is the path almost always taken. One has to wonder if there is an evolutionary advantage to the universal resistance to change. Wouldn't it be the other way around evolutionarily speaking? Andy <min.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I finally got around to seeing From Here to Eternity yesterday. I had never seen it and never read the book either. The movie was good. I was struck by how orderly the world was. The bad guys got their just deserts, and even Montgomery Clift couldn't get away with murder, however just. The Debra Kerr character was a product of her times, being driven to drink because she couldn't have children. She latched onto Burt Lancaster, and he to her, until he came to his senses and decided he liked where he was. It was better than I expected it to be. A little off the subject, but I kind of wonder if the guy who wrote the Popeye cartoon where Olive's eyes pop out and she squeals, "A may-annn!" (A man!) is a satire on a character such as Debra Kerr. The men all seemed content if not happy being married to the Army, where Debra Kerr needs a man desperately. Donna Reed seemed to have it a bit more together. I thought Burt Lancaster was a lowlife. Too bad the real world isn't so orderly. Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I just watched the 1961 movie Judgment at Nuremberg. Chief Judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy) seems to --------------------------------- You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.