Reflections in a Golden Eye is a 1967 American drama film directed by John Huston and based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Carson McCullers.

The film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando as an unhappily married couple on a US Army base in Georgia during the 1940s.

Brian Keith, Julie Harris, Robert Forster, and Zorro David were featured in major supporting roles.

The film deals with elements of repressed sexuality — both homosexual and heterosexual — as well as mental illness, voyeurism, and murder.

One day, Major Penderton assigns Williams to clear some foliage at his private officer's quarters instead of his usual duty of maintaining the horses and stables.

He eventually breaks into the house and watches Leonora sleep at night, unbeknownst to Penderton as they have separate bedrooms.

On the night of Leonora's party, Penderton takes Firebird and rides wildly into the woods, passing the naked Williams at high speed.

Upon discovering the extent of Firebird's injuries, Leonora interrupts her party and repeatedly strikes her husband in the face with her riding crop in front of the guests.

He thinks Williams is coming to see him, but watches the younger man enter his wife Leonora's room instead.

Penderton turns on the light to find Williams kneeling beside the bed watching his wife sleep and shoots him dead.

The film ends with the camera wildly veering back and forth among the dead body, the screaming Leonora, and Penderton.

[4] Some of the film was shot in New York City and on Long Island, where Huston was permitted to use the former Mitchel Field, then in use by Nassau Community College.

[6] This effect is a reference to Anacleto the houseboy's drawing of a peacock in whose large, golden eye the world is a reflection.

Variety called it a "pretentious melodrama" but praised Keith's "superb" performance as the "rationalizing and insensitive middle-class hypocrite.

"[10] Roger Ebert observed that the film was released without the usual publicity, despite its stellar cast and director: "Was the movie so wretchedly bad that Warner Bros. decided to keep it a secret?

Ebert praised the production but noted that some audience members reacted to the film's emotional moments with guffaws and nervous laughter.