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The Beguiled

his love...or his life...

7.0(525)19711h 45m3

Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.

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Status
Released
Budget
$475K
Box office
$1.1M
Language
English
  • based on novel or book
  • mississippi river
  • slavery
  • sexual repression
  • sexual awakening
  • seminary
  • american civil war
  • wounded soldier
  • yankee
  • 19th century
  • woman seduces a man
  • southern gothic

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Don Siegel

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR31 Mar 1971
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical15Originally rated (X)13 Aug 1971
  • FinlandFI

    • PhysicalK-1623 Jan 1971
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical18 Aug 1971
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1620 Jul 1973
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical1512 May 1972
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical23 Jan 1971
  • MexicoMX

    • TheatricalC23 Jan 1971
  • NetherlandsNL

    • TV12V818 May 2003
    • Physical12DVD2 Jan 2006
    • Physical12Blu ray6 Aug 2014
  • NorwayNO

    • Theatrical1523 Jan 1971
  • PolandPL

    • Theatrical1619 Mar 1973

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The Beguiled was released on 23 January 1971.

Audience reviews

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  • R

    r96sk

    1/14/2022

    7/10

    Undeniably creepy. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about <em>'The Beguiled'</em>, though. It's definitely one of the more bizarre films that I've seen, intentionally so of course. I'm just not convinced if it's a good film though, it does do a grand job at making the viewer feel uncomfortable but beyond that I'm not sold. Take out the oddness and there's not much there, I feel. With that said, it undoubtedly l…

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    Martin Oaks

    9/26/2026

    8/10

    **Anatomy of manipulation** In 1971, Donald Siegel delivered one of the most fascinating, atypical, and dark works of American cinema of that decade. With astonishing audacity, he managed to subvert the tropes of the war genre and the Western to venture into the realms of psychological thriller and Southern Gothic. The story is set in 1864, during the final stages of the American Civil War; there, John McBurney…

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