Reflections in a Golden Eye | Elizabeth Taylor & Marlon Brando
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Date: 2023-05-25

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
American drama film directed by John Huston and based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Carson McCullers. It deals with elements of repressed sexuality, both homosexual and heterosexual, as well as voyeurism and murder. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando.

Marlon Brando – Major Weldon Penderton
Elizabeth Taylor – Leonora Penderton
Brian Keith – Lt Colonel Morris Langdon
Julie Harris – Alison Langdon
Zorro David – Anacleto
Robert Forster – Private L. G. Williams

The film received mixed reviews at the time of its release. Variety called it a "pretentious melodrama" but praised Keith's "superb" performance as the "rationalizing and insensitive middle-class hypocrite."[9] Time described it as a "gallery of grotesques," with the poetry of the novel missing from the film. Its critic wrote: "All that remains praiseworthy is the film's extraordinary photographic technique."

Roger Ebert observed that the film was released without the usual publicity, despite its stellar cast and director: "Was the movie so wretchedly bad that Warner Bros. decided to keep it a secret? Or could it be, perhaps, that it was too good?" Ebert praised the production but noted that some audience members reacted to the film's emotional moments with guffaws and nervous laughter.
John Simon wrote: "Yet for all its fidelity to the original, John Huston's film, with a script by Champman Mortimer and Gladys Hill, is a pedestrian, crass, and uninvolving to the point of repellance."

The film received a score of 55% on Rotten Tomatoes from 22 reviews.

The film opened at number one at the US box office.[14] The author of the novel, Carson McCullers, died a fortnight before the premiere.

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