Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they rock around the ticktock. At 6 a.m. each weekday, several thousand Baltimoreans begin their day with a chorus of earsplitting chimes and 300-lb. Fat Daddy shouting: "Hear me now! Let me sock it to ya, Momma! From the depths of a fat man's soul, a golden oldie from outa the past with a star-studded cast! A WWIN radio blast! Shep and the Heartbeats! Eeetiddlydee! Come...
...There is a fort in the South where a few years ago a murder was committed." So begin both Carson McCullers' novel Reflections in a Golden Eye, and this film based on it. Thereafter the two follow divergent paths. In her book, love was a self-inflicted wound, and the South a theater of the absurd. Director John Huston spills the novel's poetry on the way to the screen, leaving only its gothic husk and a gallery of grotesques...
Reflections in a Golden Eye ends suddenly and violently. Its final image, an extended shot, is the one the audience carries away with it. But as a whole, the movie is unsatisfying. It is challenging and aggressive in theme, but fitfully welded together and occasionally downright dull...
...film about latent homosexuality, adultery, and various forms of human perversion, Reflections in a Golden Eye moves pretty slowly. John Huston's latest offering glides languidly through a series of loosely-tied scenes, punctuated by flashes of nudity (male and female) and spasms of sudden violence. The movie's general torpor is heightened by someone's decision, presumably Huston's to shoot through a filter that allowed only forms of red to record properly. All other colors show up black and white but red all over. It is difficult to go through the film without idly wondering...
...episodic nature of Reflections in a Golden Eye apparently results from its attempt to include the substance of the Carson McCullers novel on which it is based. The movie skips from point to point, initially dwelling on the female lead's (Elizabeth Taylor) affair with her husband's immediate superior at a Georgia army base. It swoops in on an enlisted man's strange infatuation with Miss Taylor, swipes briefly at the mental illness of the superior officer's wife, and finally lands on the theme it ends with, the even stranger, growing infatuation of Miss Taylor's husband (Marlon...