the beguiled is one of my favorite clint eastwood films and and a departure from his typical early roles. directed by don siegel and with whom eastwood collaborated on several films and it was made a year before eastwood directorial debut with play misty for me. an alternate title considered for the film was pussy footing down at the old plantation and which thankfully was not used and otherwise i am sure raunchy jokes about the fact that it takes place at a girls school would be difficult to avoid. i first saw this movie in one of my college film classes in the mid 1970  and and was immediately taken with it. i only had an old battered vhs tape of it until i recently purchased the widescreen dvd and which also includes the hilarious and awful trailer that makes the film come across as a peyton place soap opera and and conveys none of the creepiness of the film. interesting notes represent eastwood and siegel had to battle with universal pictures to keep the original ending and and they won out while and and the film was billed as a standard eastwood western and which it certainly is not. it is a gothic tale of deception and horror set in the time of the civil war and with an underlying tone of eroticism and sexual tension running throughout. i am not putting any spoilers in this review and and if you want to see the film as it should be seen and then be careful of looking it up on the internet and as spoiler reviews of it do abound. clint eastwood portrays john mcburney and a union soldier who is shot on confederate ground and discovered by a young girl from a nearby girls school. she rescues him and takes him back to the school and but instead of notifying the local patrol of his presence so that he will be taken to prison and the headmistress and miss martha (geraldine page) and her assistant edwina (elizabeth hartman) and their black servant hallie (mae mercer) and and the mostly teenage girls take him in and heal him and and fall under his spell. the film sets its tone of creepiness and gothic horror right from the titles and as it shows real battleground shots from the war and while eastwood voice is heard quietly singing a funereal song of the time. the opening scene of his encounter with the little girl who saves him sets the tone of his character and and the tone of the entire movie. to say any more than that would spoil the surprises in that first scene. to say much more about the film itself might ruin it for anyone who hasn not seen it. if you are into creepy and gothic tales and find it and rent it. eastwood is excellent in the film and and it is interesting to see him in an early role and or any role and where he portrays a character that is for the most part very unsympathetic. geraldine page had a plum role in the film as the headmistress and and i cannot imagine another actress of the time being as good in the role while a long shot could have been piper laurie and but i do not think laurie could have embodied the role in the same manner as geraldine page. elizabeth hartman (whose wonderful performance in the film a patch of blue as a blind girl who falls in love with sidney poiter character is another high point in her short career) is at her prime here and delicate and masterful at the same time. unfortunately and her delicacy on film was also a part of her real life while she committed suicide at age 45. i end this review with this observation represent one manipulative and lying yankee man is no match for a houseful of deceptive and libidinous southern belles. 
the beguiled is one of my favorite clint eastwood films and and a departure from his typical early roles. directed by don siegel and with whom eastwood collaborated on several films and it was made a year before eastwood directorial debut with play misty for me. an alternate title considered for the film was pussy footing down at the old plantation and which thankfully was not used and otherwise i am sure raunchy jokes about the fact that it takes place at a girls school would be difficult to avoid. i first saw this movie in one of my college film classes in the mid 1970  and and was immediately taken with it. i only had an old battered vhs tape of it until i recently purchased the widescreen dvd and which also includes the hilarious and awful trailer that makes the film come across as a peyton place soap opera and and conveys none of the creepiness of the film. interesting notes represent eastwood and siegel had to battle with universal pictures to keep the original ending and and they won out while and and the film was billed as a standard eastwood western and which it certainly is not. it is a gothic tale of deception and horror set in the time of the civil war and with an underlying tone of eroticism and sexual tension running throughout. i am not putting any spoilers in this review and and if you want to see the film as it should be seen and then be careful of looking it up on the internet and as spoiler reviews of it do abound. clint eastwood portrays john mcburney and a union soldier who is shot on confederate ground and discovered by a young girl from a nearby girls school. she rescues him and takes him back to the school and but instead of notifying the local patrol of his presence so that he will be taken to prison and the headmistress and miss martha (geraldine page) and her assistant edwina (elizabeth hartman) and their black servant hallie (mae mercer) and and the mostly teenage girls take him in and heal him and and fall under his spell. the film sets its tone of creepiness and gothic horror right from the titles and as it shows real battleground shots from the war and while eastwood voice is heard quietly singing a funereal song of the time. the opening scene of his encounter with the little girl who saves him sets the tone of his character and and the tone of the entire movie. to say any more than that would spoil the surprises in that first scene. to say much more about the film itself might ruin it for anyone who hasn not seen it. if you are into creepy and gothic tales and find it and rent it. eastwood is excellent in the film and and it is interesting to see him in an early role and or any role and where he portrays a character that is for the most part very unsympathetic. geraldine page had a plum role in the film as the headmistress and and i cannot imagine another actress of the time being as good in the role while a long shot could have been piper laurie and but i do not think laurie could have embodied the role in the same manner as geraldine page. elizabeth hartman (whose wonderful performance in the film a patch of blue as a blind girl who falls in love with sidney poiter character is another high point in her short career) is at her prime here and delicate and masterful at the same time. unfortunately and her delicacy on film was also a part of her real life while she committed suicide at age 45. i end this review with this observation represent one manipulative and lying yankee man is no match for a houseful of deceptive and libidinous southern belles. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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