Clint Eastwood
John McBurney
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- Clever psychosexual drama about a wounded Union soldier (Clint Eastwood) who seeks refuge in an isolated Confederate school for young women during the Civil War. Slowly, Eastwood begins to seduce every girl in sight, until the tables are turned and he becomes the pursued in an unsettling, gothic-toned finale.
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The Beguiled is a 1971 American Southern Gothic psychological thriller film directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman. The script was written by Albert Maltz and is based on the 1966 novel written by Thomas P. Cullinan, originally titled A Painted Devil.
Synopsis. During the Civil War Union Corporal John McBurney (Clint Eastwood) is wounded and is discovered in the woods by a young girl from a school for women in Louisiana.
Jan 23, 1971 · The Beguiled: Directed by Don Siegel. With Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris. While recuperating in a Confederate girls' boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.
- (19K)
- Drama, Thriller, War
- Don Siegel
- 1971-01-23
Eastwood plays a wounded Union soldier who has been taken in at a Southern girls' school. The girls become curious and then sensuous. Eastwood's character takes advantage of the situation by charming several of the women.
The Beguiled is a 2017 American Southern Gothic thriller film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, based on the 1966 novel of the same name (originally published as A Painted Devil) by Thomas P. Cullinan. It stars Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning.
Jul 28, 2017 · The Beguiled is a 1971 drama about an injured Union soldier who cons his way into each of the lonely women’s hearts, while imprisoned in a Confederate girls’ boarding school, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.
The 1971 film is an entertaining rooster-in-a-henhouse fantasy, wrapped in Southern Gothic histrionics, featuring incest, bed-hopping, amputation, poison, not to mention multiple shots of Eastwood's smooth exposed chest.
