Reflections in a Golden Eye
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Short description
Set on a United States Army post in Georgia in the late 1940s, Reflections in a Golden Eye follows Major Weldon Penderton and his wife Leonora, whose marriage has worn down to indifference and resentment. Leonora is involved with Lieutenant Colonel Morris Langdon, a family friend who turns a blind eye to his own wife Alison's fragile mental state. Into this closed world comes a young private, Williams, whose habit of watching the people around him unsettles the balance further, while the major's attention fixes on the soldier in ways he cannot acknowledge.
John Huston directed and produced the film, working from a screenplay by Gladys Hill and Chapman Mortimer based on Carson McCullers's novel. It was the fourteenth of the twenty-two features Huston directed, arriving between Casino Royale and The Kremlin Letter. Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor lead a cast of twenty credited players that includes Brian Keith, Julie Harris, Zorro David and Gordon Mitchell. Warner Bros-Seven Arts backed the production on a budget of five million dollars.
On IMDb the film holds 6.7 out of 10 from around 8,800 votes, and on TMDB 6.5 out of 10 from a much smaller pool of 142 votes. A critics' rating of 7 out of 10 across 22 reviews places professional opinion slightly above the audience average on both sites.
What's left behind the scenes
- The role of Weldon was turned down by actors Richard Burton and Lee Marvin before Marlon Brando agreed to play it for $750,000 and ten percent of the profits. Elizabeth Taylor also wanted him for the role, rejecting the initially planned candidate, Patrick O'Neal.
- This is the debut film of actor Robert Forster.
- Harvey Keitel played his second role in his career as one of the soldiers in this film, but his name is not listed in the credits.
- Photographs of the character Marlon Brando were later used in the dossier of his character from Francis Ford Coppola's film "Apocalypse Now" (1979).
- The film is based on the novel of the same name by Carson McCullers, which was published in 1941.
- The character of Wing Rems in director Simon West's film "Air Prison" (1997) wrote an autobiography titled "Glimmers in a Golden Eye".
- The scene where Major Pendleton talks to his reflection in the mirror is replicated in Martin Scorsese's film "Taxi Driver" (1976), where Robert De Niro's character, standing in front of a mirror, utters the famous line: "You talkin' to me?"
- The original author, Carson McCullers, was bisexual, which influenced her work, particularly the image of the character of Major Weldon Penderton in the novel "Reflections in a Golden Eye."
- The director wanted Carson McCullers herself to write the screenplay, but at the time the author was seriously ill.
- The film's poster can be seen in Dick and Floyd's apartment in Tony Scott's film "True Romance" (1993).
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