

The Beguiled
his love...or his life...
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
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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
2- R7/10
r96sk
1/14/2022
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…
- M8/10
Martin Oaks
9/26/2026
**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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