The Beguiled | 
| Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darleen Carr
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 21811
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.3
MPN: D20238D
ISBN: 0783227930
UPC: 025192023828
EAN: 9780783227931
ASIN: 0783227930
Theatrical Release Date: 1970
Release Date: July 22, 1998
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Product Description
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
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 A Neglected Gem June 20, 2009
Actress Aficionado (Atlanta, GA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
For Elizabeth Hartman May 25, 2009
harrythompson (Fort Knox Rox)
The Beguiled by director Siegel is one of Eastwood's most overlooked films and stars Liz Hartman who went on to do Walking Tall in 1972. Elizabeth Hartman along with Debra Winger was one of the finest actresses of the past 40 years, her life was a tragedy though, making only a handful of films and dying at the age of 45 in 1987 from a fall from her apartment window. Thin and fragile with striking features and red hair, she was soon typecast into high strung sensitive roles. What strikes me about her acting is her lack of a defensive mask, she is transparent and honest, innocent, perceptive, shy and vulnerable and VERY intelligent. The Beguiled is graced by her presence. In the film her promise of a relationship with Clint's character is tragically aborted. The Beguiled is about the revenge taken upon a manipulative man by a handful of women, and the film succeeds on many levels. Liz Hartman's performance is moving and believable, her promise as one of the greatest actresses of all time sadly was never fulfilled.
Great cult-movie April 27, 2009
Eduardo L. De Macedo (Santa Maria, RS Brazil)
One of the greatest films by Don Siegel and a very good job by Clint Eastwood.
The Betrayed March 24, 2009
Ron Braithwaite (El Indio, Texas United States)
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... February 14, 2009
Bindy Sue Fronkuenschtein (under the rubble)
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...
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