Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman

While imprisoned in a Confederate girls boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts.

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R, 1 hr. 49 min.

Directed by: Don Siegel

Release Date: January 1, 1971

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DVD Release Date: July 21, 1998

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  • September 13, 2009
    sorry, is this a comedy? cuz it's hilarious :p
  • June 12, 2009
    One of Eastwood's lesser known movies, and one of his very best. Like Play Misty for Me, also released in 1971, Don Siegel's The Beguiled cleverly subverts Clint's macho/heroic image and recasts him as a vulnerable but thoroughly deserving victim of scorned feminini...( read more)ty. However, whereas in Misty he's just a womaniser who happens to tangle with a rather poisonous species of clinging vine, The Beguiled gives Eastwood perhaps the only genuinely villainous role of his entire career. (I'm not checking that up but I can't think of another).

    He plays a wounded Union soldier in the Civil War, taken in and nursed back to health by the staff and pupils of an all-female, Louisiana boarding school. Expecting to be handed over to a Confederate patrol as soon as he is fit again, the soldier turns on the charm to buy himself enough time to escape, inadvertently stirring up a hotbed of jealousy as the women and girls compete for his affection, ending in tragedy. The female members of the cast are outstanding - none better than Pamelyn Ferdin, who plays the little girl who finds the soldier in the woods - and even Eastwood is stretched considerably further than usual. The Spanish Moss festooned Louisiana woodland does wonders for the haunting atmosphere of the movie.
  • May 30, 2009
    2 hours of clint eastwood being horny
  • September 24, 2008
    The Beguiled is the film that taught Clint Eastwood that a man has to know his limitations. The film is about a Union soldier that is found by one of the young schoolgirls that are studying at a boarding school in the south during the Civil War. Regional and sexual tensions ensue...( read more) as the film builds toward its conclusion of who is the predator and who is the prey.

    This is not your typical Clint Eastwood/Don Siegel film. The story is reminiscent of Edgar Alan Poe, a dark, sexy tale about how a mans urges dig him deeper and deeper into trouble. The Beguiled seems to be an attempt at giving Eastwood a more dramatic turn on screen, but the problem is that he doesn't look very comfortable while doing it. The rest of the cast give us great performances as southern girls locked away by the war between the states and Siegel uses the eerie surroundings as an unconscious reminder of what lurks in the school.

    The great thing about The Beguiled is that there are no heroes and villains. Everyone is guilty of something throughout the film, which makes the film a great sociology project. It shows us the evil that men (or women) do.
  • January 13, 2008
    A poisonous yet genial stroke by one of America's best.
  • September 1, 2009
    diffirent kind of movie from clint
  • August 11, 2009
    My favourite Clint movie. He is an ace charismatic actor.
  • June 12, 2009
    A great comeuppance movie. Siegel did a pretty good job with the material. It's unlike many of Eastwood's other films.
  • May 23, 2009
    so good, so interesting, really would like to be my friend EastWood, in one house all full of women, like in this history, peppone.
  • April 9, 2009
    don siegel & clint eastwood is back together working film. good starring by clint eastwood and very pointless ending.

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