Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.
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Clint Eastwood
John McBurney
Geraldine Page
Martha
Elizabeth Hartman
Edwina
Jo Ann Harris
Carol
Darleen Carr
Doris
Mae Mercer
Hallie
Pamelyn Ferdin
Amy
Melody Thomas Scott
Abigail
Peggy Drier
Lizzie
Patricia Mattick
Janie
Director
Don Siegel
Screenplay
Albert Maltz
Tagline
"his love...or his life..."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$475,000
Revenue
$1,100,000
Production
Malpaso Productions, Universal Pictures
r96sk
January 14, 2022
Undeniably creepy. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about <em>'The Beguiled'</em>, though. It's definitely one of the more bizarre films that I've seen, intentionally so of course. I'm just not convinced if it's a good film though, it does do a grand job at making the viewer feel uncomfortable but beyond that I'm not sold. Take out the oddness and there's not much there, I feel. With that sa...
Martin Oaks
September 26, 2026
**Anatomy of manipulation** In 1971, Donald Siegel delivered one of the most fascinating, atypical, and dark works of American cinema of that decade. With astonishing audacity, he managed to subvert the tropes of the war genre and the Western to venture into the realms of psychological thriller and Southern Gothic. The story is set in 1864, during the final stages of the American Civil War; ...
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