Editing From Here to Eternity (section)

==Differences from the novel==
[[File:From Here To Eternity (1953) - Trailer.webm|thumb|right|270px|The film's trailer]]
Several of the novel's controversial plot points were changed or eliminated for the film to satisfy the [[Motion Picture Production Code|Production Code Office]] and the U.S. Army.{{sfn|Hischak|2012|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vfie60kGGuAC&pg=PA75 p. 75]}}{{sfn|Suid|2002|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ucQeBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA148 p. 148]}} Army cooperation was necessary in order to shoot on location at Schofield Barracks, use training aircraft, and obtain military footage of Pearl Harbor for use in the film, as well as for cost reasons.{{sfn|Smyth|2014|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=-7HWAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA130 pp. 130–131]}}<ref name=nixon>{{cite web|last=Nixon |first=Rob |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/16762/from-here-to-eternity#articles-reviews?articleId=133547 |title=From Here to Eternity: The Essentials |date=May 3, 2006 |website=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |access-date=December 20, 2015}}</ref> According to screenwriter Daniel Taradash, both the Code Office and the Army were impressed by his script, which reduced the number of censorship problems.{{sfn|Dick|1992|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=K60eBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA150 p. 150]}}
  
In the novel, Lorene was a prostitute at a brothel, but in the film, she is a hostess at a private social club.{{sfn|Hischak|2012|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vfie60kGGuAC&pg=PA75 p. 75]}} Karen's [[hysterectomy]] in the novel was caused by the unfaithful Holmes transmitting [[gonorrhea]] to her, but in the film, her hysterectomy resulted from a [[miscarriage]], thus avoiding the topic of venereal disease. The changes were made to meet Code Office standards.{{sfn|Suid|2002|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ucQeBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA148 p. 148]}}
  
In the novel, several of the enlisted men fraternize with homosexuals, and one soldier commits suicide as a result, but homosexuality is not mentioned or directly explored in the film. Again, the change was made to satisfy the Code Office.{{sfn|Suid|2002|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ucQeBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA148 p. 148]}}{{sfn|Beidler|1998|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=DtoLcIjLBiYC&pg=PA127 p. 127]}} However, J. E. Smyth has written that the film's treatment of Judson's behavior towards Maggio "has all the indications of sexual abuse, and therefore reintroduces the fear of homosexuality in the 1930s military that the rest of the script had to repress for obvious reasons of censorship".{{sfn|Smyth|2014|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=-7HWAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA139 pp. 139–140]}} 
  
In the novel, Captain Holmes ironically receives his desired promotion, and is transferred out of the company. In the film, Holmes is forced to resign from the Army under threat of court-martial for his ill-treatment of Prewitt. The Army insisted on this change, which the filmmakers reluctantly made.{{sfn|Hischak|2012|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vfie60kGGuAC&pg=PA75 p. 75]}}<ref name="nixon" />{{sfn|Smyth|2014|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=-7HWAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA136 p. 136]}} Director Zinnemann later complained that the scene where Holmes is reprimanded was "the worst moment in the film, resembling a recruiting short",<ref name=nixon /> and wrote, "It makes me sick every time I see it."{{sfn|Eagan|2010|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=deq3xI8OmCkC&pg=PA472 p. 472]}}
 
In the novel, Judson's systematic abuse of Maggio and other prisoners, including Prewitt at one point, is portrayed in detail. However, in the film, Maggio's abuse happens [[offscreen]], and it is told only verbally to Prewitt, who remains free. The Army required that the abuse of Maggio not be shown and that Judson's behavior toward Maggio be portrayed as "a sadistic anomaly, and not as the result of Army policy, as depicted in Jones' book".<ref name=nixon /> The filmmakers agreed, seeing these changes as improvements.<ref name=nixon />{{sfn|Eagan|2010|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=deq3xI8OmCkC&pg=PA472 p. 472]}} Maggio, who survives and is discharged in the novel, dies in the film,{{sfn|Hischak|2012|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vfie60kGGuAC&pg=PA75 p. 75]}} having been combined with two other prisoner characters from the novel (one of whom is killed by Judson in the novel) to add drama and make Maggio a stronger, more tragic figure.{{sfn|Smyth|2014|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=-7HWAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126 p. 126], [https://books.google.com/books?id=-7HWAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA135 pp. 135–136]}}{{sfn|Dick|1992|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=K60eBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA146 p. 146]}}{{sfn|Dick|1992|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=K60eBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA149 p. 149]}} The Army was further appeased by the filmmakers' inclusion of a line suggesting that Maggio's death was partially caused by his falling off a truck during a prison break, rather than solely by Judson's beatings.{{sfn|Suid|2002|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ucQeBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA145 pp. 145–146]}}