The Beguiled (1971)

Note des utilisateurs:

7.1/10   

Réalisateur:

Don Siegel

Writers:

Thomas Cullinan (novel)
Albert Maltz (screenplay) ...
(suite)

Release Date:

28 mai 1971 (Finland)

Genre:

Drame | Romance | War

Accroche:

One man...seven women...in a strange house!

Plot:

While imprisoned in a Confederate girls boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts.

Plot Keywords:

Soldier | Civil War | Yankee | Boarding School | Jealousy

Avis des utilisateurs:

An oddball gem.

Ensemble

Clint Eastwood	...	Cpl. John McBurney
Geraldine Page	...	Martha Farnsworth
Elizabeth Hartman	...	Edwina Dabney
Jo Ann Harris	...	Carol
Darleen Carr	...	Doris
Mae Mercer	...	Hallie
Pamelyn Ferdin	...	Amelia ('Amy')
Melody Thomas Scott	...	Abigail (as Melody Thomas)
Peggy Drier	...	Lizzie
Patricia Mattick	...	Janie (as Pattye Mattick)
Charlie Briggs	...	1st Confederate Captain
George Dunn	...	Sam Jefferson
Charles Martin	...	2nd Confederate Captain
Matt Clark	...	Scrogins
Patrick Culliton	...	Soldier
Buddy Van Horn	...	Soldier (as Wayne 'Buddy' Van Horn)

Réalisé par
Don Siegel		(as Donald Siegel)

Scénaristes
Thomas Cullinan		(novel)
Albert Maltz		(screenplay) (as John B. Sherry) and
Irene Kamp		(screenplay) (as Grimes Grice)

Produit par
Don Siegel	....	producer (as Donald Siegel)
Claude Traverse	....	associate producer
Jennings Lang	....	executive producer (uncredited)

Musique originale
Lalo Schifrin

Image
Bruce Surtees		(director of photography)

Montage
Carl Pingitore

Création des décors
Ted Haworth

Direction artistique
Alexander Golitzen

Décorateur de plateau
John P. Austin		(as John Austin)

Maquillage
Larry Germain	....	hair stylist
Bud Westmore	....	makeup artist

Directeur de production
Joseph C. Cavalier	....	unit production manager (as Joe Cavalier)

Assistant réalisateur
Burt Astor	....	assistant director
Joseph C. Cavalier	....	second unit director (as Joe Cavalier)

Technicien du son
John L. Mack	....	sound (as John Mack)
Waldon O. Watson	....	sound

Cascadeur
Buddy Van Horn	....	stunt double (uncredited)

Divers
Scott Hale	....	dialogue coach
Dominic Santarone	....	caterer (uncredited)
Ruth Santarone	....	caterer (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Jennings Lang
• Malpaso Company, The

Distributors

• Universal Pictures (1971) (USA) (theatrical)
• Cinema Internazional Corporation (1973) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1972) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• Universal Pictures (2007) (Germany) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Universal Pictures Professional Cosmetics  cosmetics
• Universal Title  titles and opticals

Autre(s) titre(s):

Les proies (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]

Durée:

105 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Son:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Classification:

Finland:K-16 (1971) (cut) | Finland:K-16 (1989) (cut) | UK:X | Singapore:M18 | Spain:13 | West Germany:16 (f) | Australia:M | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (video rating) | USA:R (certificate #22657) | Iceland:16

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation - State Highway 75, Geismer, Louisiana, USA

Company:

Jennings Lang

Anecdotes:

'Don Siegel (I)''s favorite of all his films.

Guillemet:

Cpl. John McBurney: I've just been thinking about all the advantages a one-legged man has. He saves on socks. He doesn't have to worry about trimming as many toenails... fewer corns and bunions. I've been contemplating asking her to cut off the other one.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Reflections of Evil (2002)

An oddball gem.

Clint Eastwood in a soap opera? You bet! Gothic melodrama is what a real critic would most likely call it. Wounded Yankee soldier Eastwood is rescued from the field by several southern school girls. He finds himself in an isolated all girls school surrounded by young ladies from about 10 years old up to the middle aged school mistress. Kinky! Crushes and jealousy kick in as Eastwood attempts to get as much mileage out of his situation as he can. He's a nasty man, but these are some nasty girls. I remember when this came out at the drive-in. No one really knew what to make of it. A few months later "Dirty Harry" was released and this out of step Clint Eastwood movie just disappeared. That's a shame. It's something really different. Directed by Eastwood's longtime collaborater Don Segal, the film has a highly stylized look and feel to it. It's just plain creepy and that feeling never lets up. There are no good guys or bad guys, just nasty people trying to take advantage of other nasty people who in turn grow nastier and nastier as the movie progresses. It doesn't cover all the ground the book did. (I read it during a tour of jury duty some years ago.) But it moves at a good pace and it's sometimes complicated plot stays reasonable easy to follow. (The book was very hard to keep straight!) Creepy and nasty and very different. Well worth a look, especially by Eastwood fans.