by Hal Erickson
synopsis
The Beguiled is a Freudian mood piece from the team of actor Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel. Eastwood plays Corp. John McBurney, a wounded Union soldier during the Civil War, who takes refuge in a prim-and-proper Southern girl's school run by Martha Farnsworth (Geraldine Page). Chauvinistic, insensitive and conceited, McBurney takes full advantage of the women by bedding each successively -- and then learns the true meaning of "a woman scorned."
characteristics
- Sleeper
- Soldier
- Behind Enemy Lines
- Civil-War [US]
- Girls-school
- Dangerous Attraction
- Trapped
- Women During Wartime
- Amputation
