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Name: The Beguiled
Released: 1971-4-3
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darleen Carr

The Beguiled

R
1h 44m
1971

90%

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Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page star in this tense psychological drama of love and betrayal. During the Civil War, a wounded Union soldier is sheltered by the headmistress and students of a girls' academy in the South. As his health returns his desire increases, but can he trust these enemy women not to turn him in? He takes his chances but soon realizes that his benefactress can't be trusted... with his love or with his life! His lustful ambition turns quickly against him and the story follows him through a series of nerve-shattering events, including realistic scenes that are among the boldest, most shocking ever witnessed on film. Directed by Don Siegel, with a sultry score by Lalo Schifrin, this bittersweet thriller of hidden passions is set in one of America's romantic eras.

Director:

Donald Siegel

Producer:

Donald Siegel

Writer:

John B. Sherry, Grimes Grice

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darleen Carr, Mae Mercer, Pamelyn Ferdin, Melody Thomas, Peggy Drier, Pattye Mattick

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

90%

Reviews

Rob's Movie Vault

Rob Gonsalves

It has an eerie power and unsettling Gothic gloom that keep it riveting until the finish.

The filmmaking and sheer oddity of everything onscreen remain compulsively watchable.

THE BEGUILED is an excellent film and surprisingly weird in the ways that provoke thought about sexual repression and the mental effects of war on the front lines and those shielded from society.

Its status as one of Eastwood's most intriguing works remains undisturbed.

While the offbeat film is ultimately successful, it does bring out Siegel's worst stylistic impulses.

April 12, 2022

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