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The Beguiled (1971) | User Rating
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Original title: Beguiled, The
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jul 21, 1998
Running Time
1 hour, 45 minutes
Country USA
Studio Malpaso, Universal
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Beguiled (1971)
• Betrogen (1971)
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Genre: War, Drama, Revenge, Murder, Disturbing, Racy, Military, School / Campus, Melodrama, Period Piece
Tagline: One man...seven women...in a strange house!
Plot: This bizarre Gothic Western, made the year before Clint Eastwood's equally eerie PLAY MISTY FOR ME, makes one wonder what was happening in the actor's personal life during this period. Set in the Deep South during the Civil War, the film stars Eastwood as John McBurney, a severely wounded soldier who is near death when discovered by a teenage girl. She takes him to the mansion that serves as her boarding school, where he slowly begins to regain his health under the care of headmistress Martha Farnsworth (Geraldine Page) and the dozen or so girls who live there. As McBurney gets better, he begins to charm the girls, all of whom are starved for affection because of the war's claim on their men. At length, powerful undercurrents of jealousy saturate the atmosphere as the girls, and even the headmistress, begin to vie for McBurney's attention. He first becomes involved with one of the oldest of the girls, Edwina Dabney (Elizabeth Hartman), but ultimately finds it difficult to resist the charms of some of her schoolmates. His promiscuity becomes his undoing. A fascinating mixture of eroticism and horror, THE BEGUILED is perhaps the most uncharacteristic of either Don Siegel's or Eastwood's career; its evocation of castration anxiety provides an interesting angle on the dark side of
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 ...It was Clint Eastwood being a poon-hunter in a multi- layered, brilliantly cast, exceptionally shot, highly ambitious, taboo heavy and mucho daring little chiller. How can you go wrong with that jive? See it, own it and come to the already “set in stone” conclusion that Clint Eastwood is “The Man”! He was then, still is today and will always be. CLINT! YOU FREAKING ROCK!  --'The Arrow' (Arrow)
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| Directed by |
Don Siegel
Dirty Harry, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Escape from Alcatraz |
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| Written by |
| Albert Maltz
Two Mules for Sister Sara, Broken Arrow, The Naked City |
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| Cast |
Clint Eastwood
Million Dollar Baby, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Unforgiven |
 | | | Jo Ann Harris
The Parallax View, The Simpsons Christmas Special, Cruise Into Terror | | | Pamelyn Ferdin
Charlotte's Web, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, The Mephisto Waltz | |
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| Music By |
Lalo Schifrin
Mission: Impossible II, Mission: Impossible, Rush Hour |
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