"From Here to Eternity" (1953)

SPOILER ALERT: While not a plot that is "unique" (every plot's been "done before"), it's not real predictable to see where the plot is going to go--other than an attack on Pearl Harbor--which since it's a "pre-attack" film, you "know" that that is going to end up being included. The ending was logical (that is, carrying out how things probably would go), not a happy ending, but logical. It was interesting watching a Hawaii movie in black & white at a time when they could've chosen to shoot it in color. While love is certainly a theme, it's not limited to only Romantic love--or even family love. Love as in loyalty seems to be more of the film's study. Frank Sinatra was in the cast, but didn't do any singing. Very nice jazz/blues trumpet playing by the lead character. One or two very nice transitions from one scene to the next--but I wonder if it is a "nice transition" if you notice it. The Pearl Harbor attack was certainly a piece of the plot, but it was not a central piece--more of a background piece. High marks for interesting story/movie; medium marks for ending; low marks for "how I liked the ending"--it's a concept study movie, though very subtle, not a movie to entertain. Loyalty love, that's the concept.  I have no idea what the title means or how it fits with the movie.

Informed later:  from the poem "Gentlemen Rankers" by Rudyard Kipling.  Fitting--but would take some more study to dig everything out.