The Beguiled
Directed by:
Don SiegelCinematography:
Bruce SurteesComposer:
Lalo SchifrinCast:
Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darleen Carr, Pamelyn Ferdin, Mae Mercer, Patricia Mattick, Buddy Van Horn, Matt Clark (more)Plots(1)
During the American Civil War, wounded Union soldier John McBurney (Clint Eastwood) is taken in by the all-female staff of a Confederate Louisiana girls' school as their 'prize'. However, McBurney cunningly plays the women off against each other, working on their sexual frustrations and biding his time until he can make an escape. The cast also includes Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman. (Universal Pictures UK)
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I feel that (although there are many to choose from) McB is Clint Eastwood's best role. A dramatic role, definitely. He gave a tremendous performance, thanks to which the viewer does not know what to think of his character from the beginning to the end. Is he a lying manipulator? Or a charming wounded soldier giving out grateful smiles and plagued by a kind of war trauma? Or are things completely different? Thanks to all the similarly unpredictable women, the atmosphere in that cut-off house gets thicker and thicker and anything can happen. Don't seek to know more about the plot than necessary and let yourself be surprised. There is a lot to come.
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