Clint Eastwood: A Life In Film / The Beguiled

CLINT EASTWOOD: A LIFE IN FILM, 2007, 81 min. Dir. Michael Henry Wilson. Using the post-production of Eastwood's World War II diptych as his springboard, Wilson engaged the notoriously reticent director in a surprisingly easygoing and intimate dialogue. Never before had Eastwood recounted his personal odyssey with such passion.

THE BEGUILED, 1971, Universal, 105 min. Don Siegel (DIRTY HARRY) directed this hypnotic American Gothic of a wounded Yankee soldier (Clint Eastwood) holed up in a rural finishing school of sexually voracious Southern belles during the Civil War. Eastwood’s complex, double-edged performance is one of his greatest. Geraldine Page is the tragically-repressed schoolmistress who finds herself falling for her ‘prisoner,’ and Elizabeth Hartman is the delicate flower who might just end up being Eastwood’s salvation.