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"Young Clint, damn! No wonder the man has like seven kids. In this you have women literally tearing themselves apart for him and him apart too. Lust and jealousy are powerful man. Though I came for Clint, Elizabeth Hartman really steals it for me, just the deep melancholy in her eyes touches me so. "

"A true outlier in the filmography of Don Siegel, a director usually more inclined to sinewy, minimalist filmmaking, The Beguiled is a delirious fever dream of Southern Gothic moodiness and repressed sexuality. Like the proverbial fox in the henhouse, wounded Union soldier John McBurney (Clint Eastwood) is brought into the Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies by one of its youngest wards, thereby turning up the flame under the already simmering tensions among its occupants, from headm"

"Clever psycho-sexual drama about a wounded Union soldier who seeks refuge in an isolated Confederate school for young women during the Civil War. Slowly, Eastwood begins to seduce some of the girls, until the tables are turned and he becomes the pursued in an unsettling, gothic-toned finale. Never has a movie been so deliciously erotic yet disturbingly macabre at the same time. It's another example of Eastwood's willingness at that time to break new ground and tackle new genres. He plays a thoro"