I’ve recently watched six movies that featured the Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It’s so interesting how they all used the historical event in different ways and with different purposes. From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, 1953) ends with the attack. Before that, we see the intersecting lives of several characters around the island. Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt (Montgomery Clift), Sergeant Milton Warden (Burt Lancaster), and Private Angelo Maggio (Frank Sinatra) navigate the tensions of military life in Pearl Harbor. Karen Holmes (Deborah Kerr), the wife of Warden’s commanding officer, and Alma