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Released
1971 · FILM

The Beguiled

A wounded Union soldier seeks refuge at a secluded Southern girls’ school, but his presence ignites the students' obsessive desires, forcing him to outwit their seductive manipulation before he can escape the war‑torn enclave.

“his love...or his life...”

Directed by
Don Siegel
Written by
Albert Maltz, Irene Kamp
Runtime
105 min
DramaThrillerWar
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

This unconventional Civil War drama follows a wounded Union soldier who takes refuge in a remote Southern girls' school near the end of the war. There, he becomes the focus of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier takes advantage of the situation for his own pleasure, but when he refuses to fully satisfy their desires, the women conspire to prevent his departure.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Carl PingitoreShot by Bruce SurteesScored by Lalo SchifrinDesigned by Ted Haworth

Box Office

1971 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.1M

Budget$475K
Worldwide gross$1.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Betrogende
  • Les Proiesfr
  • La notte brava del soldato Jonathanit

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