What is Our Mother's House / The Beguiled about?

OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE, 1967, Warner Bros., 104 min. Dir. Jack Clayton (THE INNOCENTS). Hoping to avoid orphanage, seven children keep it a secret when their Mother dies, burying her in the garden, then going about their routine. When ‘father,’ Dirk Bogarde, suddenly appears, rescue seems at hand. However, he’s revealed to be a hard-drinking layabout, and things take an ugly turn. THE BEGUILED, 1971, Universal, 105 min. Don Siegel (DIRTY HARRY) directed this Civil War-era Gothic of wounded Yankee, Clint Eastwood, hiding in a finishing school of sexually voracious Southern belles. Geraldine Page is the repressed headmistress, and Elizabeth Hartman is the delicate flower who might be Eastwood’s salvation. Critics were divided, but many now believe it to be one of Siegel and Eastwo

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What is Our Mother's House / The Beguiled about?: OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE, 1967, Warner Bros., 104 min. Dir. Jack Clayton (THE INNOCENTS). Hoping to avoid orphanage, seven children keep it a secret when their Mother dies, burying her in the garden, then going about their routine. When ‘father,’ Dirk Bogarde, suddenly appears, rescue seems at hand. However, he’s revealed to be a hard-drinking layabout, and things take an ugly turn.

THE BEGUILED, 1971, Universal, 105 min. Don Siegel (DIRTY HARRY) directed this Civil War-era Gothic of wounded Yankee, Clint Eastwood, hiding in a finishing school of sexually voracious Southern belles. Geraldine Page is the repressed headmistress, and Elizabeth Hartman is the delicate flower who might be Eastwood’s salvation. Critics were divided, but many now believe it to be one of Siegel and Eastwo