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The Beguiled (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 21, 1998
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page & Elizabeth Hartman | |
Performer: | Darleen Carr, Mae Mercer, Pamelyn Ferdin & Jo Ann Harris | |
Directed by | Don Siegel | |
Edited by | Carl Pingitore | |
Screenplay by | Albert Maltz & Irene Kamp | |
Composition by | Lalo Schifrin | |
Produced by | Don Siegel | |
Director of Photography: | Bruce Surtees |
Entertainment Reviews:
Southern Gothic that sinks too deep into the bayous of sexploitation and horror towards the end, Don Siegel's adaptation of Thomas P Cullinan's 1966 novel is still ripe and pungent enough to intermittently fascinate.
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Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
It's perhaps their most atypical and most psychologically fascinating, showing Eastwood as more of a sexual being than most of his other, iconic films ever did.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 3/4 --
...what begins as a swooning pastoral soon develops into a kinky, Southern Gothic nightmare.
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: 4/5 --
Provocative and hypnotic...Eastwood revels with spellbinding spunk in this suggestive military melodrama
Movie Eye
Rating: 3/4 --
This intriguing drama ranks as one of Eastwood's most atypical pictures.
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Creative Loafing
The story may sometimes come off as a ribald soldiers' tale that Siegel ... had been awaiting a sexual revolution to tell; still, his intense, intelligent breakdown of the film's wild outbursts reveals subtleties of love, despair, and shame ...
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New Yorker
Rating: 5/5 --
A sexually-charged Southern Gothic masterpiece that's monumentally underappreciated. One of Eastwood's and Siegel's best films.
Fantastica Daily
Product Description:
This bizarre Gothic Western, made the year before Clint Eastwood's equally eerie PLAY MISTY FOR ME, makes one wonder what was happening in the actor's personal life during this period. Set in the Deep South during the Civil War, the film stars Eastwood as John McBurney, a severely wounded soldier who is near death when discovered by a teenage girl. She takes him to the mansion that serves as her boarding school, where he slowly begins to regain his health under the care of headmistress Martha Farnsworth (Geraldine Page) and the dozen or so girls who live there. As McBurney gets better, he begins to charm the girls, all of whom are starved for affection because of the war's claim on their men. At length, powerful undercurrents of jealousy saturate the atmosphere as the girls, and even the headmistress, begin to vie for McBurney's attention. He first becomes involved with one of the oldest of the girls, Edwina Dabney (Elizabeth Hartman), but ultimately finds it difficult to resist the charms of some of her schoolmates. His promiscuity becomes his undoing. A fascinating mixture of eroticism and horror, THE BEGUILED is perhaps the most uncharacteristic of either Don Siegel's or Eastwood's career; its evocation of castration anxiety provides an interesting angle on the dark side of these tough-guy filmmakers. Eastwood give one of his best performances, and Page and the ill-starred Elizabeth Hartman are superb.
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