Clint Eastwood stars in this US drama directed by Don Siegel. During the American Civil War, wounded Union soldier John McBurney (Eastwood) is taken in by the all-female staff of a Confederate Louisiana girls' school as their 'prize'. However, McBurney cunningly plays the women off against each other, working on their sexual frustrations and biding his time until he can make an escape. The cast also includes Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman. 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. Running Time: 100 minutes Region: Region 2 Subtitles: English Release Date: 4 Jun. 2007
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