THE beautifully restored classic film From Here to Eternity is showing at the Number 8 Arts Centre, in Pershore, from Monday, November 29.

Based on writer James Jones' best selling book, it focuses on the passions, aspirations and frustrations of a group of soldiers stationed in Hawaii in the run up to the attack on Pearl Harbour.

Pvt Robert Lee Prewitt, played by Montgomery Clift, is a loner who lives by his own code of ethics who becomes infatuated with nightclub hostess Lorene, played Donna Reed. Prew's best friend, the wisecracking Maggio, played by Frank Sinatra, is persecuted by sadistic stockade sergeant Fatso Judson, Ernest Borgnine, and Sergeant Milt Warden, Burt Lancaster.

He eventually enters into an affair with Karen, played by Deborah Kerr, the wife of his commanding officer.

Director Fred Zinnemann expertly juggles this large cast of characters and intertwines multiple romances and storylines underpinned by a sense of impending doom that foretells the grim destiny that will overtake them all. From Here to Eternity was the winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Tickets cost £6.50, £6 concessions, with performances from 10.30am and 7.30pm. For more information call 01386 555488.