Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) |
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| Director(s) | John Huston |
| Producer(s) | John Huston, Ray Stark, C.O. Erickson |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation, Romance, Thriller/Suspense |
| Top Topics | Book-Based |
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Elizabeth Taylor(as Leonora Penderton)
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Released
1967
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Released
1967
Elizabeth Taylor
(as Leonora Penderton)
Marlon Brando(as Maj. Weldon Penderton)
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Released
1967
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Released
1967
Marlon Brando
(as Maj. Weldon Penderton)
Brian Keith(as Lt. Col. Morris Langdon)
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Released
1967
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Released
1967
Brian Keith
(as Lt. Col. Morris Langdo...)
Julie Harris(as Alison Langdon)
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Released
1967
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Released
1967
Julie Harris
(as Alison Langdon)
Reflections in a Golden Eye Overview:
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by John Huston and produced by John Huston, Ray Stark and C.O. Erickson.
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Reflections in a Golden Eye Quotes:
Maj. Weldon Penderton:
[to Leonora] You disgust me.
Alison Langdon:
Alcoholics, paresis, senility. My God. What a choice crew.
Lt. Col. Morris Langdon:
[after Alison Langdon's houseboy Anacleto falls down the stairs] I wish you'd broken your goddam neck!
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.
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.
Leonora:
Have you ever been collared and dragged out into the street and thrashed by a naked woman?
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Both Richard Burton and Lee Marvin turned down the role of Major Weldon Penderton before Marlon Brando agreed to do it for $750,000 plus 10% of the profits.
John Huston wanted Carson McCullers, the author of "Reflections in a Golden Eye" to write the screenplay for the film version but she was too ill.
Originally released in a version in which all scenes were suffused with the color gold, with one object in each scene (such as a rose) normally-colored. This was in reference to the houseboy's drawing of a golden peacock in whose eye the world is a mere reflection. But that version puzzled audiences, so it was withdrawn and a normally-colored version released.
In the scene where Maj. 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.