The Beguiled

Beguiled (1971)

  • 90% of critics liked it
    (10 reviews)

  • 65% of users liked it
    (5,159 ratings)

The Beguiled is a Freudian mood piece from the team of actor Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel. Eastwood plays Corp. John McBurney, a wounded Union soldier during the Civil War, who takes refuge in a prim-and-proper Southern girl's school run by Martha Farnsworth (Geraldine Page).… More

R,
Directed By
Written By
Albert Maltz, Irene Kamp
Genres
Drama, Classics
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1971 Wide
Universal Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

    It's perhaps their most atypical and most psychologically fascinating, showing Eastwood as more of a sexual being than most of his other, iconic films ever did.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Evidently the public didn't like Eastwood in this sleazy role and stayed away in droves.

  • Chuck O'Leary, Fantastica Daily

    A sexually-charged Southern Gothic masterpiece that's monumentally underappreciated. One of Eastwood's and Siegel's best films.

  • Frank Ochieng, Movie Eye

    Provocative and hypnotic...Eastwood revels with spellbinding spunk in this suggestive military melodrama

  • Shane Burridge, rec.arts.movies.reviews

    We're used to Eastwood playing a hero, so we accept his casual words and silky delivery without really questioning it

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Wahida K


    Wow Clint Eastwood took full advantage. Women and Clinteastwood in his youth. Sorrounded from teenagers to well lady`s? And he had them all. It is actually a very interesting Drama, very unusuall for the Movie with Clint Eastwood which I have seen. <center>LEARN THE MEANING… More

  • Cassandra M


    This powerful drama centering around the effect which the arrival of a wounded civil war soldier has on a house full of women is probably Don Siegel's finest achievement, and is yet another example of Eastwood's willingness to break new ground and tackle new genres. It is… More

  • Pierluigi P


    Certainly the strangest association between Eastwood and Siegel, but also one of their best. A morbidly perverse cautionary tale, narrated with the pulse of a master. Its southern ghotic surroundings are as macabre as tantalizing.

  • Stella D


    sorry, is this a comedy? cuz it's hilarious :p

  • Stephen M


    One of Eastwood's lesser known movies, and one of his very best. Like <i>Play Misty for Me</i>, also released in 1971, Don Siegel's <i>The Beguiled</i> cleverly subverts Clint's macho/heroic image and recasts him as a vulnerable but thoroughly… More

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