OMZ, TCM is running "Reflections in a Golden Eye" - fanTAStic!1
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This seems to be a completely overlooked movie like it never happened. It's got Liz at her LEAST annoying, albeit with that tinny "Southern" accent (who told her ever that it was good on her?) and BRANDO and Julie HARRIS and
Brian KEITH, one Robert FORSTER (foster), one Zorro DAVID as the funny/touching Filipino housebody, and directed by John HUSTON.
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The scene with the whipped horse is unbearable. But Liz shows a character's compassion like never else. Not that her career was anything I particularly followed or that she is the best part of this movie.
Ms Carson McCULLERS pegged this almost-Gothic novel about stagnant military tawdriness, the chain of command ass-kissing status game, the prisonlike atmosphere, the gossipy affairs and homoerotic repression --- yes, BRANDO is pretty blatant throughout, everything from fingering a candle in a candlestick (get it?!1) to delivering a soliloquy about "nothing like the life of men among men" (get it?!1).
One of the best opening lines:
"There is a fort in the South where a few years ago a murder was committed."
In the movie the Julie HARRIS character is committed to a mental institution, her a lady, and she looks around at her fellow patients and says, "Alcoholics, paresis, senility. My God. What a choice crew."
When she says she wants a divorce over her husband's affair, she tells him she's hiring a lawyer and, since she has no money, she will appreciate his lending her $500 to do so!1 HaHAH (and sniff).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062185/
The TCM host (MANKIEWICZ?) read at the end that the movie is not great but important, not one of Liz's or HUSTON's best, but BRANDO's part was very complicated and one of his most underrated.
