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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 44208
Released: July 22, 1998 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A wounded union soldier of the civil war is taken in by the women of a girls school. When he eventually seduces two of them the women then decide to exact a strange revenge for his promiscuous actions. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/01/2006 Starring: Clint Eastwood Geraldine Page Run time: 105 minutes Rating: R Director: Don Siegel
The Beguiled Reviews:
Unique thriller/drama 
2009-09-12 - The Bottom Line:
A film rather unlike any other I've seen (the closest movie I can think of would probably be Misery, but they're significantly different), The Beguiled concerns a Union soldier who finds himself convalescing in a house full of dangerous Southern woman while the war rages outside them; full of Freudian undertones and skillfully directed by Don Siegel, this is a different type of Eastwood movie that might surprise you.
3/4
A Neglected Gem 
2009-06-20 - It is regrettable that this movie has been marginalised. The production design at Belle Helene in southeastern Louisiana is superb, the story evocative along psychoanalytic registers, and the performances commanding. Geraldine Page, Mae Mercer, and in fact most of the actors are very strong. Clint Eastwood's libidinous character is in for some surprises when he is carried through the symbolic locked gates of this girls' school in the Civil War Deep South--wounded but predatory, provoker of the most intense ambivalences. Civil War themes, Southern Gothicism, 1960s discourses on race and sexual liberation, and a persistent brooding myth-and-symbol approach evocative of classical Greek tragedy provide a heady and disturbing brew. It is astonishing how obscure this fine film is. If you like this review, you will swoon over the film itself. Bravo, Amazon.
Great cult-movie
2009-04-27 - One of the greatest films by Don Siegel and a very good job by Clint Eastwood.
The Betrayed
2009-03-24 - Possibly my favorite of all Eastwood's movies. Interestingly, I've heard that this is the one and only Eastwood film that ever lost money. This may because Eastwood fans want to see him in control. In the 'Beguiled' his efforts to gain control of his situation only enmesh him deeper and deepr in a tangled web of his own making.
I won't try to retell the film. See it. Suffice it to say that Eastwood plays a wounded Yankee soldier taken in by the head mistress and students of a girl's school in Louisiana during the Civil War. Not wanting to be turned over to the Confederates, Eastwood reckons that he can manipulate these horny women to his own advantage...and...for a while, he seems to get away with it. Of course what he does it not only 'bad and wrong' it is downright dangerous and the women see to it that Eastwood plays the full price for his folly.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--'Skull Rack' and 'Hummingbird God'--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
A Lesson For Us All...
2009-02-14 - A wounded union soldier (living-legend Clint Eastwood) is taken in by a southern girl's academy during the civil war. The women and young girls decide to nurse him back to health before turning him in to the confederacy. Now, all Clint has to do is play it smart, right? I mean, if he's honest and friendly, he'll eventually win their hearts and minds, right? Wellll...., old Clint just can't play it straight. He begins lying and using these women, including the head-mistress, Miss Martha (Geraldine Page). At first, all seems fine, as the women hover around his bedroom like moths to the flame. However, Clint's plan backfires when he decides to take full, physical advantage of his situation. What a moron! Potential heaven quickly becomes hell, as he is undone and ultimately doomed by the women he's betrayed. The moral of the story? When invited to a lavish banquet, don't make a pig of yourself! Sheesh...
