In technicolor but it looked almost monochrome, the colors faded to a shade of gold. Based on the novel by Carson McCullers.
Brian Kieth and Marlon Brando play Army officers. Kieth is sleeping with Brando's wife, Elizabeth Taylor. Kieth's wife, played by Julie Harris, is mentally ill after the death of a child.
A little hard to believe that Brian Kieth was starring in Family Affair at the time.
An Army private is a peeping tom, watching the goings on in Brando's house. After seeing Elizabeth Taylor (or her body double) naked, he starts breaking in and spending the night gazing at her while she sleeps (she and Brando have separate bedrooms.) Good thing she never got up to go to the bathroom. There are stables there and the officers and their wives enjoy horseback riding. The private does, too, except he likes riding the horse naked and frolicking this way. He used a switchblade to unlatch the screen door to their house. It didn't present him this way, but he seemed like a dangerous pervert to me.
Brando becomes infatuated with the private and starts following him around. He tells his wife at one point that he wishes he could be an enlisted man again, hanging around the barracks.
Marlon Brando was known for mumbling. That combined with his phony Southern accent made him unintelligible at times.
With Robert Forster as the nudist private and Zorro David as the apparently gay Filipino houseboy.
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