Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor d/ John Huston
Oddball curiosity adapted from a novel by Carson McCullers. The topic is life on a southern army base in the fifties, a time of ostensible peace. But things are not peaceful. We have a closeted major, his harridan wife, the woman neighbor whose fragility is slipping her into a life of darkness, and...an enlisted man who likes to watch. And horses.
Steamy doins are enhanced by a yellow tint embedded in the film...making the whole thing look like it's buried in aspic. For a film seething with sexuality it's remarkably coy: the only nudity is Robert Forster riding a horse bareback and bare-assed. Film felt sordid, dirty with characters constantly picking scabs off old wounds. No fun to watch but it did hold me. Everyone was 'acting.'
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