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Reflections in a Golden Eye

  • 19671967
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  • 1h 48m
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6.7/10
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Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor in Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
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Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.

IMDb RATING
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7.3K
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  • Director
    • John Huston
  • Writers
    • Chapman Mortimer(screenplay)
    • Gladys Hill(screenplay)
    • Carson McCullers(novel)
  • Stars
    • Elizabeth Taylor
    • Marlon Brando
    • Brian Keith
Top credits
  • Director
    • John Huston
  • Writers
    • Chapman Mortimer(screenplay)
    • Gladys Hill(screenplay)
    • Carson McCullers(novel)
  • Stars
    • Elizabeth Taylor
    • Marlon Brando
    • Brian Keith
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 95User reviews
    • 47Critic reviews
    • 67Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 6 nominations

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    Reflections in a Golden Eye
    Trailer 2:42
    Reflections in a Golden Eye

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    Elizabeth Taylor and John Huston in Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
    Marlon Brando in "Reflections in a Golden Eye"
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    "Reflections in a Golden Eye" Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor
    "Reflections in a Golden Eye" Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando
    "Reflections in a Golden Eye" Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando 1967 Warner Bros.
    "Reflections in a Golden Eye" Elizabeth Taylor and Brian Keith 1967 Warner Bros.
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    Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
    Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
    Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, and Glenn Ford in Julius Caesar (1953)
    Elizabeth Taylor in Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

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    Elizabeth Taylor
    Elizabeth Taylor
    • Leonora Pendertonas Leonora Penderton
    Marlon Brando
    Marlon Brando
    • Maj. Weldon Pendertonas Maj. Weldon Penderton
    Brian Keith
    Brian Keith
    • Lt. Col. Morris Langdonas Lt. Col. Morris Langdon
    Julie Harris
    Julie Harris
    • Alison Langdonas Alison Langdon
    Zorro David
    • Anacletoas Anacleto
    Gordon Mitchell
    Gordon Mitchell
    • Stables Sergeantas Stables Sergeant
    Irvin Dugan
    • Capt. Murray Weincheckas Capt. Murray Weincheck
    Fay Sparks
    • Susieas Susie
    Robert Forster
    Robert Forster
    • Pvt. L.G. Williamsas Pvt. L.G. Williams
    Ed Metzger
    Ed Metzger
    • Pvt. Frank Brianas Pvt. Frank Brian
    Ted Beniades
    • Sergeantas Sergeant
    • (uncredited)
    John Callaghan
    • Privateas Private
    • (uncredited)
    Jed Curtis
    Jed Curtis
    • Accordionistas Accordionist
    • (uncredited)
    Frank Flanagan
    • General Sugaras General Sugar
    • (uncredited)
    Trent Gough
    • Soldieras Soldier
    • (uncredited)
    Harvey Keitel
    Harvey Keitel
    • Soldieras Soldier
    • (uncredited)
    Al Mulock
    • Privateas Private
    • (uncredited)
    Robert Rietty
    Robert Rietty
    • Anacletoas Anacleto
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • John Huston
    • Writers
      • Chapman Mortimer(screenplay)
      • Gladys Hill(screenplay)
      • Carson McCullers(novel)
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    Storyline

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    U.S. Army Major Weldon Penderton (Marlon Brando) is stationed on a base in the American south. He and his wife Leonora Penderton (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) are in an unsatisfying marriage. Weldon is generally a solitary man who in his time alone tries to bolster his self image as he feels less than adequate as a man and a Major. He does not want to viewed like Captain Murray Weincheck (Irvin Dugan), who has been bypassed for promotion time and time again solely because he is seen as being too sensitive. Self absorbed Leonora, when not focused on her passion of horses and riding, tries to maintain the façade of being what she sees an officer's wife should be while she carries on an affair with their next door neighbor, married Lieutenant Colonel Morris Langdon (Brian Keith). Morris' wife, Alison Langdon (Julie Harris), suffered a nervous breakdown three years ago after miscarrying her child, she is still with that nervous constitution. Alison is generally drawn toward sensitive types, such as Captain Weincheck and their faithful flamboyant Filipino houseboy, Anacleto (Zorro David). Peripheral to the Pendertons' lives is brooding Private L.G. Williams (Robert Forster), who Leonora knows as the enlisted man who works at the stables, and who Weldon asks to do some work around their house. While Weldon secretly becomes fixated on Williams, Williams in turn becomes secretly fixated on Leonora. The question becomes what emotions, many of those emotions being latent, will dictate what actions each of these people will make. —Huggo
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    • Taglines
      • Most women in her situation would do the very same thing! They just wouldn't do it as well- or as often!
    • Genres
      • Drama
      • Romance
      • Thriller
    • Certificate
      • Not Rated
    • Parents guide

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    • Trivia
      In the scene where Major Weldon Penderton gives a lecture on leadership, a subject for which he is ill-suited, Marlon Brando asked producer and director John Huston for another take after delivering what Huston considered to be a superb performance. In the second take, Brando delivered a different line reading that was equally brilliant. When it came time to cut this movie, Huston was baffled over which of the takes to use, as each was superb and relevant to the character.
    • Goofs
      Although movie is set in 1940s, all of Elizabeth Taylor's hairstyles, makeup and wardrobe are of the mid-1960s.
    • Quotes

      Maj. Weldon Penderton: I'm sorry, Leonora. It's just all this clutter is...

      Leonora: What's the matter with clutter? I like it.

      Maj. Weldon Penderton: I'd rather live without it. Bare floors. Plain white walls. No window curtains. Nothing but essentials.

      Leonora: If that's the way you feel about it, why don't you resign your commission and start all over again as an enlisted man?

      Maj. Weldon Penderton: Of course you're laughing at it, but there's much to be said for the life of men among men... with no... luxuries, no ornamentation. Utter simplicity. It's rough and it's coarse, perhaps, but it's also clean - it's clean as a rifle. There's no speck of dust inside or out... and it's immaculate in its hard young fitness... its chivalry. They're seldom out of one another's sight. They eat, and they train, and they shower, and they play jokes... and go to the brothel together. They sleep side by side. The barracks room offers many a lesson in courtesy and how not to give offense. They guard the next man's privacy as though it was their own. And the friendships, my lord. There are friendships formed that are stronger than... stronger than the fear of death. And - they're never lonely. They're never lonely. And sometimes I envy them... well, good night.

    • Alternate versions
      In the version of the film released in Brazil's cinemas in the late 1960s, it was Anacleto who announced that Mrs. Alison had cut off her nipples with the garden shears. But in the later VHS version, it is Leonora who makes the remark to Lt. Col. Langdon while they are playing cards.
    • Connections
      Featured in Apocalypse Now (1979)
    • Soundtracks
      Elegie Op. 3, No.1
      (uncredited)

      Music by Sergei Rachmaninoff

    User reviews95

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    7/10
    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
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    • Release date
      • October 13, 1967 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Spiegelbild im goldenen Auge
    • Filming locations
      • Long Island, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros./Seven Arts
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $4,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $65,232
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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