Reflections in a Golden Eye Free
- Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Rating IMDb: 68
- Year: 1967
- Duration: 1:48
Summaries
Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
U.S. Army Major Weldon Penderton (Marlon Brando) is stationed on a base in the American south. He and his wife Leonora Penderton (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) are in an unsatisfying marriage. Weldon is generally a solitary man who in his time alone tries to bolster his self image as he feels less than adequate as a man and a Major. He does not want to viewed like Captain Murray Weincheck (Irvin Dugan), who has been bypassed for promotion time and time again solely because he is seen as being too sensitive. Self absorbed Leonora, when not focused on her passion of horses and riding, tries to maintain the façade of being what she sees an officer's wife should be while she carries on an affair with their next door neighbor, married Lieutenant Colonel Morris Langdon (Brian Keith). Morris' wife, Alison Langdon (Julie Harris), suffered a nervous breakdown three years ago after miscarrying her child, she is still with that nervous constitution. Alison is generally drawn toward sensitive types, such as Captain Weincheck and their faithful flamboyant Filipino houseboy, Anacleto (Zorro David). Peripheral to the Pendertons' lives is brooding Private L.G. Williams (Robert Forster), who Leonora knows as the enlisted man who works at the stables, and who Weldon asks to do some work around their house. While Weldon secretly becomes fixated on Williams, Williams in turn becomes secretly fixated on Leonora. The question becomes what emotions, many of those emotions being latent, will dictate what actions each of these people will make.
A U.S. Army base somewhere in the south, late 1940s/early 1950s. A quiet, relatively unimportant base, it is the model of serenity. On this base, we have Major Weldon Penderton (Marlon Brando), a lecturer in military tactics and strategy. He's married to Leonora (Dame Elizabeth Taylor). There's also Lieutenant Colonel Morris Langton (Brian Keith) and his wife Alison (Julie Harris). On the surface, everything appears normal and uneventful. However, dig a bit deeper and you'll see that there is no passion in the Pendertons' marriage - they barely tolerate each other. Mrs. Penderton is having an affair with Lieutenant Colonel Morris Langdon (Brian Keith). Mrs Langdon (Julie Harris) has mental issues. Then there's the strange, voyeuristic, repressed Private L.G. Williams (Robert Forster).
On a U.S. Army post circa 1948, Major Weldon Penderton (Marlon Brando), who is an impotent, latent homosexual is married to infantile birdbrain Leonora (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), who never misses an opportunity to ridicule his masculine failings. He displaces his hostility by brutally flogging her horse and she retaliates by humiliating him before a houseful of guests, repeatedly slashing him across the face with her riding crop. She is also committing adultery with the officer next door, Lieutenant Colonel Morris Langdon (Brian Keith), whose wife, Alison (Julie Harris), cut off her nipples with garden shears after the death of her baby. She has sought solace in the ministrations of her effeminate houseboy, Anacleto (Zorro David). The sixth character, coveted by the Major, is darkly handsome non-com Private L.G. Williams (Robert Forster), a voyeur and lingerie-fondler, given to nightly appearances as a peeping tom in the birdbrain's bedroom and daily sessions of horseback riding in the middle of the woods stark naked.
