“Reflections in a Golden Eye” is drama film dealing with goings-on between two married couples and their circle of acquaintances on an Army bases in the South in the late 1940’s. Director John Huston (“The Maltese Falcon” 1941) and screenwriters Charles Mortimer and Gladys Hill made a film that is basically an overblown melodrama adapted from the 1941 novel of the same name by Carson McCullers.
The key redeeming quality of the film is the charisma of the big-name actors that populate the cast. Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, and Julie Harris play the lead roles, with support from Robert Forster, Zorro David, Gordon Mitchell, Irvin Duncan, and Fay Sparks. This was the movie debut not only for Forster, but also for Ed Metzger and Harvey Keitel (in an uncredited role). “Reflections in a Golden Eye” underperformed at the box office for Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
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My Review
“Reflections in a Golden Eye” is drama film dealing with goings-on between two married couples and their circle of acquaintances on an Army bases in the South in the late 1940’s. Director John Huston (“The Maltese Falcon” 1941) and screenwriters Charles Mortimer and Gladys Hill made a film that is basically an overblown melodrama adapted from the 1941 novel of the same name by Carson McCullers.
The key redeeming quality of the film is the charisma of the big-name actors that populate the cast. Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, and Julie Harris play the lead roles, with support from Robert Forster, Zorro David, Gordon Mitchell, Irvin Duncan, and Fay Sparks. This was the movie debut not only for Forster, but also for Ed Metzger and Harvey Keitel (in an uncredited role). “Reflections in a Golden Eye” underperformed at the box office for Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.