Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

Julie Harris: Alison Langdon

Quotes 

• Alison Langdon : [to Morris]  I'm going to get a divorce. And as I have no money I would appreciate your lending me the sum of $500. I will pay you back at five percent interest with Anacleto and Captain Weincheck as guarantors. You need not feel any further responsibility toward me. Anacleto and I will go into some business together or buy a prawn boat, maybe. And now will you, please, help him bring my trunk up from the cellar? We have to pack and be out of here early tomorrow morning.

• Alison Langdon : Alcoholics, paresis, senility. My God. What a choice crew.

• Leonora : Will somebody, please, tell me why Captain Weincheck is unpopular?

  Alison Langdon : Is it because he plays the violin, reads Proust?

  Leonora : Oh, do you remember that tea he gave? Classical records and cat hairs. And before God, tea. Only tea!

  Alison Langdon : Captain Weincheck is a gentleman.

• Anacleto : Look. A peacock. A sort of ghastly green - with one immense golden eye. And in it - these reflections of something tiny and - tiny and...

  Alison Langdon : Grotesque.

  Anacleto : Exactly.