The Beguiled | |
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Directed by | Don Siegel |
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Based on | The Beguiled by Thomas P. Cullinan |
Produced by | Don Siegel |
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Cinematography | Bruce Surtees |
Edited by | Carl Pingitore |
Music by | Lalo Schifrin |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.1 million[1] |
The Beguiled is a 1971 American Southern Gothic psychological thriller film directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman. The script was written by Albert Maltz and is based on the 1966 novel written by Thomas P. Cullinan, originally titled A Painted Devil. The film marks the third of five collaborations between Siegel and Eastwood, following Coogan's Bluff (1968) and Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), and continuing with Dirty Harry (1971) and Escape from Alcatraz (1979).[2]