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  • Actors: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page
  • Directors: Don Siegel
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Dubbed: None
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Audio Description: None
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Universal Pictures UK
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Jun. 2007
  • Run Time: 100 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000PMFNY6
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 27,972 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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During the American Civil War, a wounded Union soldier (Clint Eastwood) is taken in by the all-female staff of a Confederate Louisiana girls' school as their 'prize'. However, the soldier cunningly plays the women off against each other, working on their sexual frustrations and biding his time until he can make an escape.

Synopsis

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 these tough-guy filmmakers. Eastwood gives one of his best performances, and Page and the ill-starred Elizabeth Hartman are superb.

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By Bob Salter TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 30 April 2009
Format: DVD
There have been many strange Westerns in that genres history, but none that I can recall being quite so strange as "The Beguiled". I watched this film many years ago as part of a film studies course. I recall thinking afterwards "What on Earth was that all about". How was I to write an essay on it. Well I did but I doubt it made much sense. But one thing was absolutely certain, I remembered it vividly. It is one of those films like "Night of the Hunter" that haunts your imagination. There has been nothing like it before or since. The closest film to it is possibly Rob Reiner's "Misery" based on Stephen King's novel.

The film is set near the close of the American Civil war. A badly injured Yankee soldier played by Clint Eastwood is rescued by a 12 year old girl from a Louisiana boarding school. He is taken there to recover from his wounds. Initially the staff and pupils are frightened but as he gets better he charms them all, one by one. This leads to jealousy, deceit and eventual tragedy.

The director Don Siegal collaborated with Clint Eastwood on four other films. "Coogans Bluff", "Dirty Harry", "Two Mules for Sister Sarah" and "Escape from Alcatraz". All admirable films but they bear little similarity to this film, and in my opinion are nowhere near as good. Eastwood's "Play Misty for Me" bears far more similarities, and appears to have been heavily influenced by his work on "The Beguiled". The script was written by Albert Maltz but both Eastwood and Siegal were unhappy with the ending, wanting something more faithful to Thomas Cullinan's book "The Painted Devil" that it was based on. They had their way.

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By Bob Salter TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 30 April 2009
Format: DVD
There have been many strange Westerns in that genres history, but none that I can recall being quite so strange as "The Beguiled". I watched this film many years ago as part of a film studies course. I recall thinking afterwards "What on Earth was that all about". How was I to write an essay on it. Well I did, but I doubt it made much sense. But one thing was absolutely certain, I remembered it vividly. It is one of those films like "Night of the Hunter" that haunts your imagination. There has been nothing like it before or since. The closest film to it is possibly Rob Reiner's "Misery" based on Stephen King's novel.

The film is set near the close of the American Civil war. A badly injured Yankee soldier played by Clint Eastwood is rescued by a 12 year old girl from a Louisiana boarding school. He is taken there to recover from his wounds. Initially the staff and pupils are frightened but as he gets better he charms them all, one by one. This leads to jealousy, deceit and eventual tragedy.

The director Don Siegal collaborated with Clint Eastwood on four other films. "Coogans Bluff", "Dirty Harry", "Two Mules for Sister Sarah" and "Escape from Alcatraz". All admirable films but they bear little similarity to this film, and in my opinion are nowhere near as good. Eastwood's "Play Misty for Me" bears far more similarities, and appears to have been heavily influenced by his work on "The Beguiled". The script was written by Albert Maltz but both Eastwood and Siegal were unhappy with the ending, wanting something more faithful to Thomas Cullinan's book "The Painted Devil" that it was based on. They had their way.

The film has been described as a Gothic Western.
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This 1971 terminally strange film is a very, very atypical thing in Clint Eastwood's career and therefore worth discovering. I am quite glad that I finally watched it as it was one of the very, very few movies with Eastwood which I didn't see. Now I still have to watch "White hunter, black heart" (UPDATE: it's done) and "Honky Tonk Man" and then I can die in peace...))) Below, more of my impressions, with some limited SPOILERS.

Close to the end of the American Civil War, an injured Yankee soldier, corporal John McBurney (Clint Eastwood), is rescued from the verge of death by a twelve-year-old girl from an all-girl boarding school in Louisiana. At first the all-female staff and pupils are scared, but as John starts to recover, he charms them one by one...

Directed by Don Siegel, this film is an adaptation of the novel "Painted Devil", which belongs to the very peculiar genre of Southern Gothic. It usually describes weird, decadent, depraved and/or shocking situations in the American South - and this story definitely qualifies.

I will not say much about the story to avoid spoilers, but let's just say that this is a disturbing film, including allusions (but not showing openly) of such things as saphism, incest, interracial rape, castration, underage sex and REALLY underage sex... It contains also scenes of animal cruelty, mutilation and cold blooded, cruel murder. Finally it is also a study of enslavement - and it is not the lonely black character that is the most targeted... With that much depravity involved, small wonder that the French consider this as one of the most important films in Eastwood's career...))) Indeed, it is shown in permanence in some small specialised Parisian cinemas in Quartier Latin...
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