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The Beguiled

1971

Don Siegel

Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris ...

7.2

5,382

Drama. Romance 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. Jealousy sparks and the anger is ultimately focused at Eastwood who ends up suffering a few "mild mishaps" in the film. It was a smash in Europe but failed to ignite any excitement in the US.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Combining the conventions of both Western and Grand Guignol chiller, and often directed as if it were an art movie, this is one of Siegel and Eastwood's strangest - and most beguiling - collaborations"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"The Beguiled doesn’t come off, and cues laughter in all the wrong places (...) Pic is essentially black comedy, but treatment is consistently heavy-handed"	NEG
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"[It] reveals subtleties of love, despair, and shame beneath the schematic luridness."	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"One of the least famous of Clint's Western this is an enigma of the genre with ambiguity and psychological depth all over the place. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"A sensational, misogynistic nightmare"	POS

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