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What happens to Private Angelo Maggio in From Here to Eternity?

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Fred Zinnemann stands between Marlon Brando, left, in a suit, and Montgomery Clift, right, in a tank top, on the set of From Here to Eternity, with lockers in the background. — Fred Zinnemann (From left to right) Marlon Brando, Fred Zinnemann, and Montgomery Clift on the set of *From Here to Eternity* (1953).

In the 1953 film From Here to Eternity, directed by Fred Zinnemann, Private Angelo Maggio (played by Frank Sinatra) is court-martialed and sentenced to six months in the stockade after walking off guard duty while intoxicated.1

While in the stockade, Maggio is subjected to severe abuse by the overseer, Sergeant "Fatso" Judson. After eventually escaping, a battered and dying Maggio manages to reach his friend Robert E. Lee Prewitt. He describes the brutality he endured at the hands of Judson before passing away in Prewitt's arms.1