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Reflections in a Golden Eye ()

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Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
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Leonora Penderton
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Maj. Weldon Penderton
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Lt. Col. Morris Langdon
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Alison Langdon
Zorro David ...
Anacleto
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Stables Sergeant
Irvin Dugan ...
Capt. Murray Weincheck
Fay Sparks ...
Susie
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Pvt. L.G. Williams
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Pvt. Frank Brian
Ted Beniades ...
Sergeant (uncredited)
John Callaghan ...
Private (uncredited)
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Accordionist (uncredited)
Frank Flanagan ...
General Sugar (uncredited)
Trent Gough ...
Soldier (uncredited)
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Soldier (uncredited)
Alice Marchak ...
Woman (uncredited)
Al Mulock ...
Private (uncredited)
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Anacleto (uncredited) (voice)
Douglas Stark ...
Dr. Burgess (uncredited)
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Lieutenant at Garden Party (uncredited)

Directed by

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John Huston

Written by

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Chapman Mortimer ... (screenplay) and
Gladys Hill ... (screenplay)
 
Carson McCullers ... (novel)

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C.O. Erickson ... associate producer
John Huston ... producer
Ray Stark ... producer
Sandy Whitelaw ... associate producer (uncredited)

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Toshirô Mayuzumi ... (as Toshiro Mayuzumi)

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Aldo Tonti ... director of photography
Oswald Morris ... (uncredited)

Editing by

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Russell Lloyd

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Stephen B. Grimes ... (as Stephen Grimes)

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Bruno Avesani

Costume Design by

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Dorothy Jeakins

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Alexandre ... hair stylist: Elizabeth Taylor (as Alexandre of Paris)
Paolo Borselli ... hair stylist (as Paola Borzelli)
Giancarlo Del Brocco ... key makeup artist
Agnes Flanagan ... hair stylist
Amato Garbini ... makeup artist
Frank La Rue ... makeup artist (as Frank LaRue)
Phil Rhodes ... makeup artist (as Philip Rhodes)

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

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Vana Caruso ... assistant director
Edward Folger ... assistant director (uncredited)

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William Kiernan ... set director
Alessandro Alberti ... assistant art director (uncredited)

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

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Nino Cristiani ... camera operator (as Michele Cristiani)
Ettore Duranti ... grip (uncredited)
Frank Flanagan ... gaffer (uncredited)
Alberico Novelli ... electrician (uncredited)
Bob Penn ... still photographer (uncredited)
Piero Servo ... first assistant camera (uncredited)

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Anna Maria Feo ... wardrobe (as Anna Maria Fea)

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Marcus Dods ... conductor

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Angela Allen ... script supervisor

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Friedrich von Ledebur ... horse master
Saul Cooper ... unit publicist (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

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. Written by 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! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Reflets dans un oeil d'or (France)
  • Reflexos en un ull daurat (Spain, Catalan title)
  • Reflejos en un ojo dorado (Spain)
  • Odsevi v zlatem očesu (Slovenia)
  • Spiegelbild im goldenen Auge (Austria)
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  • 108 min
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Budget $4,500,000 (estimated)

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Trivia Originally released in a version in which all scenes were suffused with the color gold and one object in each scene (such as a rose) appeared normally colored. This was done in reference to the houseboy's statement regarding the golden peacock in a drawing that he shows to Alison: he states that the world is just a reflection in the eye of the golden peacock. However, that version puzzled audiences so it was withdrawn and a normal color version released. The DVD issued in 2020 by Warner Archive includes both versions. See more »
Goofs Although movie is set in 1940s, all of Elizabeth Taylor's hairstyles, makeup and wardrobe are of the mid-1960s. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Apocalypse Now (1979). See more »
Soundtracks Elegie Op. 3, No.1 See more »
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.
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