The Beguiled is a Freudian mood piece from the team of actor Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel. Eastwood plays a wounded Union soldier during the Civil War, who takes refuge in a prim and proper southern girls school overseen by Geraldine Page. He soon discovers that the ladies hospitality had a hidden agenda: the love-starved students wish to use Eastwood as a nonstop sex machine. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide