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The Beguiled (1971)

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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). Chauvinistic, insensitive and conceited, McBurney takes full advantage of the women by bedding each successively -- and then learns the true meaning of "a woman scorned." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

R, 1 hr. 45 min.

Drama, Classics

Albert Maltz, Irene Kamp

Jul 21, 1998

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All Critics (13) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (1) | DVD (3)

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.

January 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

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

April 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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

October 21, 2005 Comment
Fantastica Daily

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

June 26, 2004 Comment
Movie Eye

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

January 1, 2000 Full Review | Comment
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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. LEARN THE MEANING OF SCORNED WOMAN!

November 28, 2011
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Wahida K

Super Reviewer

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 also, perhaps, the finest acting performance of

September 18, 2010
matertenebraum

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