Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) on Netflix
NR19671h 48mDramaRomanceThriller
At a Georgia Army post, Major Weldon Penderton and his wife Leonora live near Lt. Col. Morris Langdon and his wife Alison. Private Williams, assigned to the stables, becomes fixated on Leonora.
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Plot summary
In the late 1940s, Major Weldon Penderton and his wife Leonora live at a United States Army post in Georgia, near Lt. Col. Morris Langdon and his wife Alison. Leonora cares for her horse Firebird and carries on an affair with Langdon, while Penderton, prone to rage, keeps his distance from her. Alison, still grieving the death of their baby three years earlier, finds companionship with the Langdons' houseboy Anacleto. Private L. G. Williams, gentle with the stables' horses, is assigned to clear foliage at the Pendertons' quarters. After meeting Leonora, he becomes enamored with her and begins watching the house at night. Alison notices him leaving the Penderton home and asks Leonora about it, but Leonora dismisses the idea.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
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- Elizabeth Taylor accepted the role of Leonora Penderton on the condition that Montgomery Clift be cast opposite her, but Clift died of a heart attack on July 23, 1966, before production began. Marlon Brando then took the part of Weldon Penderton after both Richard Burton and Lee Marvin turned it down.
- The film was first released with every scene tinted by a gold filter, so that only certain reds and greens escaped the golden shades, echoing the houseboy Anacleto's drawing of a peacock. The version puzzled audiences, was withdrawn within one week of release and replaced by prints processed in normal Technicolor.
- Still photographs of Brando in character as Major Penderton were used later by the producers of Apocalypse Now, displayed in the service record of the character Colonel Walter E. Kurtz.
- The film's aggressively mature themes drew much of its publicity, and its approval is often cited as an example of the weakening of the Hays Code.
