# El Engaño (1971)

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**Original title**: *The Beguiled*
**Runtime**: 105 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Drama, War
**Directed by**: Don Siegel
**Written by**: Albert Maltz, Irene Kamp, Claude Traverse
**Starring**: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darleen Carr, Mae Mercer

> *his love...or his life...*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A Louisiana convent thick with cicadas and gunpowder. A Union deserter carried in on a litter, his coat still clotted with Yankee mud.

Inside, the girls stitch his wound in silence then sharpen their pencils against his uniform. He trades stories for figs, handiwork for silences, but the price of his survival keeps rising.

S1, Siegel’s thriller bleeds Southern Gothic into greasy thriller territory without blinking an inch.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, dread, slow-burn, tender

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