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Writers:
Carson McCullers (novel) and
Gladys Hill (writer)
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Release Date:
13 October 1967 (USA) more
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Most women in her situation would do the very same thing! They just wouldn't do it as well- or as often! more
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Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post. full summary | full synopsis
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Cast

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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
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108 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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In the scene where Major Penderton gives a lecture on leadership, a subject for which he is ill-suited, Marlon Brando asked director John Huston for another take after delivering what Huston considered a superb performance. In the second take, Brando delivered a different line reading that was equally brilliant. When it came time to cut the film, Huston was baffled over which of the takes to use as each was superb and relevant to the character. more
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Continuity: When Leonora is writing invitations to a party in her house, the amount of drink in her glass decreases between shots. more
Quotes:
Lt. Col. Morris Langdon: [after Alison Langdon's houseboy Anacleto falls down the stairs] I wish you'd broken your goddam neck! more
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Referenced in Con Air (1997) more

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A sensual cat, 14 March 2006
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Author: valadas from Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

In an army barracks where life seems to go on with apparent naturalness there takes place a human drama of lust, adultery and repressed homosexuality in which Elizabeth Taylor, that sensual cat, moves herself like a fish in a pond. She is married to a major (Marlon Brando) but has an established affair with a colonel (Brian Keith) since her husband seems not to accomplish with his marital duties, being a repressed homosexual feeling himself attracted against his will to a private soldier (Robert Forster). The colonel is married to a neurotic woman who has a filipino servant (Zorro David) who makes a curious character indeed in his devotion to his mistress. This story develops itself in a calm way interrupted here and there by only a few outbursts of emotion and violence when repressed feelings explode. It's not a masterpiece but a movie that portrays with enough truth and authenticity a lot of human actions and reactions, making it worth to be seen. I think however that Montgomery Clift who was first designed to perform the role of Major Penderton would have done it much better than Marlon Brando since he was a much more sensitive kind of actor in his performances.

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