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Special Ernest Borgnine Movie Tribute @ the Library, Monday, August 3
RIIFF to Present Lifetime Achievement Award to Ernest Borgnine
August 7

PROVIDENCE, RI – The Rhode Island International Film Festival will present actor Ernest Borgnine with a Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday, August 7 at the Columbus Theater during their 2010 Festival and will screen his new film, Another Harvest Moon. In tribute to this industry legend, Providence Public Library will play his two classic films: From Here to Eternity and Marty, the movie for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor.

1:30 PM: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (Ernest Borgnine, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Columbia Pictures; Directed by Fred Zinnemann Black & White; Not Rated; 118 minutes; 1953) This World War II drama chronicles the lives and loves of soldiers on an army base in Honolulu just days before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Based on the best-selling novel by James Jones, this simmering drama includes actual footage of the surprise Japanese attack.

6:30 PM: MARTY (Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Karen Steele MGM/UA; Directed by Delbert Mann Black & White; Not Rated; 89 minutes; 1955) Marty, a homely Bronx butcher (Ernest Borgnine), is unmarried and uninterested. One night, lured to a dance hall, he meets a girl in the same state of mind. Their relationship, seemingly so simple and unremarkable becomes a thing of haunting beauty and endearing wonder.

For more information about this award and the Rhode Island International Film Festival, visit: www.film-festival.org