Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

John Huston

Writers:

Carson McCullers (novel) and
Gladys Hill (writer)
(more)

Release Date:

13 October 1967 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Most women in her situation would do the very same thing! They just wouldn't do it as well- or as often!

Plot:

Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.

Plot Keywords:

Major | Horse | Peeping Tom | Army | Officer

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor	...	Leonora Penderton
Marlon Brando	...	Maj. Weldon Penderton
Brian Keith	...	Lt. Col. Morris Langdon
Julie Harris	...	Alison Langdon
Zorro David	...	Anacleto
Gordon Mitchell	...	Stables Sergeant
Irvin Dugan	...	Capt. Murray Weincheck
Fay Sparks	...	Susie
Robert Forster	...	Pvt. L.G. Williams
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ted Beniades	...	Sergeant (uncredited)
John Callaghan	...	Private (uncredited)
Jed Curtis	...	Accordionist (uncredited)
Frank Flanagan	...	General Sugar (uncredited)
Trent Gough	...	Soldier (uncredited)
Harvey Keitel	...	Soldier (uncredited)
Al Mulock	...	Private (uncredited)
Douglas Stark	...	Dr. Burgess (uncredited)
Friedrich von Ledebur	...	Lieutenant at Garden Party (uncredited)

Directed by
John Huston

Writing credits
Carson McCullers		(novel)
Gladys Hill		writer
Chapman Mortimer		writer

Produced by
C.O. Erickson	....	associate producer
John Huston	....	producer
Ray Stark	....	producer

Original Music by
Toshirô Mayuzumi

Cinematography by
Aldo Tonti
Oswald Morris		(uncredited)

Film Editing by
Russell Lloyd

Production Design by
Stephen B. Grimes		(as Stephen Grimes)

Art Direction by
Bruno Avesani

Set Decoration by
William Kiernan

Costume Design by
Dorothy Jeakins

Makeup Department
Alexandre	....	hair stylist: Ms. Taylor (as Alexander of Paris)
Paolo Borselli	....	hair stylist (as Paolo Borzelli)
Agnes Flanagan	....	hair stylist
Amato Garbini	....	makeup artist
Frank La Rue	....	makeup artist (as Frank LaRue)
Phil Rhodes	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Mario Del Papa	....	production manager
Frederick Muller	....	unit manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Vana Caruso	....	assistant director
Edward Folger	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Sound Department
John Cox	....	sound
Basil Fenton-Smith	....	sound
Leslie Hodgson	....	sound editor

Camera and Electrical Department
Nino Cristiani	....	camera operator (as Michele Cristiani)
Frank Flanagan	....	gaffer (uncredited)
Alberico Novelli	....	electrician (uncredited)
Bob Penn	....	still photographer (uncredited)
Piero Servo	....	first assistant camera (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Anna Maria Feo	....	wardrobe mistress (as Anna Maria Fea)

Music Department
Marcus Dods	....	conductor

Other crew
Angela Allen	....	script supervisor
Friedrich von Ledebur	....	horse master

Production Companies

• Warner Brothers/Seven Arts

Distributors

• Warner Brothers/Seven Arts (1967) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1973) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• AFEX (1968) (Austria) (theatrical)
• Chapel Distribution (1997) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Seven Films (2008) (Greece) (theatrical) (reissue)
• Warner Bros. (1967) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Warner Home Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

UK:15 (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | Portugal:M/12 | West Germany:18 (f) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Long Island, New York, USA

Company:

Warner Brothers/Seven Arts

Trivia:

Stills of Marlon Brando's character were used in his Apocalypse Now (1979) character's "dossier".

Goofs:

Continuity: When Leonora is writing invitations to a party in her house, the amount of drink in her glass decreases between shots.

Quotes:

Leonora: Have you ever been collared and dragged out into the street and thrashed by a naked woman?

Movie Connections:

Featured in Brando (2007) (TV)

Admirable in many ways, beautifully staged and photographed and splendidly acted…

The time is late 1948 and the setting is a U.S. Army post in Georgia, bordering on a forest preserve…

A Southern amoral wife called Leonora (Elizabeth Taylor) finds a way for her stream desire in an adulterous affair with Lt. Col. Langdon (Brian Keith), carried on almost openly…

Leonora gives aperture to her forcefulness and vigor in a passion for horses and riding… She is attached to a handsome white horse she calls Firebird and she provokes her husband by telling him that the animal is indeed a stallion with the emotional nature of man...

Leonora's husband (Marlon Brando) is a devious, insecure, impotent Army major, a hidden homosexual preoccupied with an unsociable, lonely rider who canters around the field in the nude and whose sexual emotional stress is diminished, secretively, at the bedside of the major's wife holding her clothes and looking fixedly at her marvelous hot body…

Private Williams (Robert Forster) is another lonely man fascinated by the fiery Leonora and her thoughtful and gentle comments to him… He takes to visiting the Penderton house at night looking attentively in the windows, observing with total recall and complete joy Leonora's nakedness, but also watching the Major in his study…

Keith's neurotic wife (Julie Harris) is well aware of her husband's affair with Leonora but she only feels well from her close friendship with her houseboy, Anacleto (Zorro David), an affected companion who shares her penchant for the arts and is in every way the opposite of her abrupt, strong husband…

Flavored with bitter insinuations and insulting sarcasms, Brando and Taylor's few scenes have enough flames to burn the silver screen… He's a tormented human being while she's delicious but shrill and insensitive… Aware of her physical beauty she fights back when she's rejected, instigating him with her impudent, insolent, shameless manner that offend his very being…