How Don Siegel Soothed Clint Eastwood's Doubts About Starring In The Beguiled

Dec 14 2022 by /Film

 

Clint Eastwood entered the 1970s at a transitional point in his career. He was for certain a movie star, but, despite hits like the crime-thriller "Coogan's Bluff" and the World War II flick "Where Eagles Dare," he was still primarily associated with Westerns. This was hardly a precarious place to be. He'd earned enough studio goodwill to take a risk or two on a movie that wasn't a straight-down-the-middle commercial play.

Thomas P. Cullinan's novel "The Beguiled" presented such a risk. The...

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