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The Beguiled
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.
1971 · Directed by Don Siegel · 105 min · Thriller · Drama · War · 14 frames
Tagline
his love...or his life...
Crew
- Screenplay: Albert Maltz, Irene Kamp
- Written by: Claude Traverse
- Cinematography: Bruce Surtees
- Edited by: Carl Pingitore
- Music: Lalo Schifrin
- Production design: Ted Haworth
- Produced by: Don Siegel
Cast
- Clint Eastwood as John McBurney
- Geraldine Page as Martha
- Elizabeth Hartman as Edwina
- Jo Ann Harris as Carol
- Darleen Carr as Doris
- Mae Mercer as Hallie
- Pamelyn Ferdin as Amy
- Melody Thomas Scott as Abigail
- Peggy Drier as Lizzie
- Patricia Mattick as Janie
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Malpaso Productions, Universal Pictures
- Budget: $475,000
- Box office: $1,100,000
- Themes: based on novel or book, mississippi river, slavery, sexual repression, sexual awakening, seminary, american civil war, wounded soldier, yankee, 19th century
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