Anybody ever seen "The Beguiled" (1971) with Clint Eastwood?

[nomorenomore08]

I wanted to mention it because, in addition to being an excellent film, it's quite far removed from the stereotypical Eastwood vehicle ("Dirty Harry," et al). He plays a wounded Union soldier taken in by a Southern school/orphanage for girls, and a lot of twisted sexual jealousy and general Gothic darkness ensues.

[Flaxbee]

1. sounds interesting. where'd you see it?

I'll check it out.

[nomorenomore08]

4. Rented it on DVD from a video store. I don't think it's too hard to find.

nt

[KansDem]

2. Yes, I've seen it...

And I agree...it's quite far removed from the stereotypical Eastwood vehicle.

Isn't there a kind of disconnect between what he says and what really happens/happened?

I found it engrossing...

[hellbound-liberal]

3. That was an excellent movie! I think it was the first one that he directed too!

It was a very good story and I think the casting was good too. I've seen it several times over the years.

[Sequoia]

5. That's some movie !!!

Brother and sister love, plain Jane love, sultry smoldering teen girl love, little girl who likes mushrooms love, and a hunk of a dude in their midst who all are floored by his presense: CHOOSE ME !!!

There's this movie of his and then there's the other chilling movie: Play Misty For Me, about a stalker.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

6. Play Misty for Me

The only CE movie I will watch
Not into the Dirty Harry or spaghetti western stuff at all although I liked him as Rowdy Yates on Rawhide (ok, I'm old)

But maybe you can help me here
There was a TV movie in the last few years that sounds a lot like Beguiled (or it may have been a short-lived TV series that dealt with various themes)
Some guys, I think on the lam, take refuge in an old isolated bldg in winter, encounter pretty but weird young women (old fashioned dress and manners), think 'this is cool'
Nothing good ensues

Edit to add: will check out Beguiled when it comes around.

[PassingFair]

19. This one?

:P

[Sequoia]

22. Sorry, I do not know right off hand.

[Swede]

7. It was a good movie.

I think directed it,also.

[enigmatic]

8. I had a HUGE crush on Jo Ann Harris when I was a kid

Still do, actually:

[nomorenomore08]

9. I don't blame you at all. She freakin' *sizzles* in that role.

P.S. Is that Harry Crews in your avatar? Crazy dude, great writer...

[enigmatic]

11. Yeah!

I'm getting back into Crews after a number of years not reading his stuff and it's joy to read him again. I'm almost done w/ "Karate Is A Thing Of The Spirit"; after that, it's onto "The Gospel Singer"..

[MrScorpio]

17. And I had a huge crush on Pam Ferdin when I was young

I never thought that I had a chance

[Scout]

10. yup, i've seen it several times

good flick!

pass the mushrooms...

[mykpart]

12. Love it and love Play Misty for Me.

But it makes me wonder: Why did Elizabeth Hartman stop making films? And whatever happened to the actress who played the little girl who poisoned him? She worked all the time as a child; I guess she retired?

[mykpart]

15. OMG! I found out the answer to my first question.

She committed suicide. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0366946/bio

[Fenris]

13. Love that one. One of his best movies.

Great ending. Completely freaked me out as a kid.

[RoyGBiv]

14. Excellent film ...

Funny thing about Eastwood movies. When you start watching them, you realize most of them aren't stereotypical Eastwood vehicles. He did the whole Dirty Harry thing and the Any Which Way but Loose thing, that ... thing where he sang, and a couple of his Westerns were standard for the genre.

But, a lot of them aren't, or if they are, they take an angle that strays away from what's perceived as typical.

The Outlaw Josey Wales is a good example. On one level, it's just another Western, but it's so much more than that. Westerns where the typical White Hats and Black Hats aren't so typical often turn out really good, and I find that movie among the best.

But anyway, yeah, I've seen it many times. Loved it.

[ForrestGump]

16. The Man With No Name and Dirty Harry are iconic,

but Clint's got more range as an actor than he's typically credited with. I remember watching The Beguiled maybe 25-30 years ago and it seemed a companion piece, in some ways, to Play Misty For Me. Quite different from what might be expected. And I happen to just love Paint Your Wagon and some of the other oddities he's done (never did see the orangutan films, though) as well as somewhat off-kilter Western-genre films like High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josie Wales, and Pale Rider.

As a director, though, he's really reached his potential and it's pretty much that of a cinematic genius (hey, working with Sergio Leone, Don Siegel, and other greats can't have hurt, either). Among more recent works, the two about Iwo Jima really stand out in many ways and the three of his current films I've seen (Gran Torino, The Changeling, and the Visitor) are absolutely stellar. It was always easy to parody old Clint The Squint, but the dude is more than the obvious sum of his acting parts and has got talent beyond belief, especially behind the camera.

[RoyGBiv]

18. Agreed ...

Everyone should see the Orangutan Movies, just to say you have, at least the first one. Not too long ago it was one of those movies you just had to have seen to get some of the pop culture jokes. It's total camp, and you can't go in expecting art, but the biker gang is a scream. The second one, I think, was just an excuse to let Sandra Locke sing on camera again (and oh what a horror that is), but when I was a kid it introduced me to the song Cow Patty, so it can't be all bad.

Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima are, combined, one of the best films about WWII in the Pacific that I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them. They're what Saving Private Ryan could have been had it kept trying after the first 10 minutes.

And I just saw The Changling the other day. That blew me away.

[gbate]

20. One of my favorite Eastwood films.

He was hot!! Also love "Play Misty for Me."

[bikebloke]

21. The Eiger Sanction

I watched it this weekend, with Clint as an assassin. (a $10 bundled DVD set with Beguiled) No CGI. They had real people on the mountain face. Even Clint and George Kennedy on top of that chimney. I liked it better this time around than when it was first released theatrically. Maybe because the book was still fresh in my mind.

[LeftinOH]

23. Blood-spattered Geraldine Page sawing Clint's leg off.. hard to forget-

-and the fragile young woman who falls in love with Clint's character was portrayed by a fine actress -Elizabeth Hartnman- who turned out to be pretty fragile herself (committed suicide in the 1980s). Great, moody film.

[nomorenomore08]

24. Yeah, that "Ya shoulda just castrated me!" kind of beats the viewer over the head with the implied

meaning of the amputation scene. And the aspect of "hobbling" as punishment also brings to mind the hatchet scene in "Misery."