![]() ![]() Brando, as a substitution casting for Montgomery Clift. From extra marital affairs to homosexuality with a little voyeurism mixed in, we get a very unique picture of a Southern army base in the 1940s. Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando star in Hustons adaption of the Carson McCullers novel. The idea for the story germinated when, as an adolescent, she first went to Fort Benning, but she also drew on her experience of Fayetteville, where she and Reeves. ![]() This novella was written in 1941 and its underlying sexual tones are well ahead of its time. McCullers wrote Reflections in a Golden Eye in a short period of time, for fun, she said, after the long session with The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Rounding out the cast is the introverted Private Williams, a somnambulistic young man and undetected murderer who awakens to a new level of consciousness and strange longing after coming into contact with Leonora, whose horse, Firebird, he stables. Routinely and masochistically he becomes enamored of his wife's lovers. At the center is secret aesthete, figurative eunuch, and kleptomaniac Captain Weldon Penderton, a repressed homosexual whose desires are so internalized that the only expression they can find is rage and despair. In the US Deep South is a fort that contains a group of men and women trapped in a stifling and repetitive existence. Inhalt Five people's dreams, obsessions and failures interweave in this atmospheric novel of life in a peace-time army camp. ![]()
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