![]() ![]() ![]() Senior, Nikita Fopiano led the next group of stars, (54th at 17:53), followed by senior Ben Clemmer, (77th at 17:54), senior Cameron Jones, (80th at 17:59), senior Titus Williams, (84th at 18:01). On the boy's side, junior Luke Cassidy paced the Star contingent with a time of 17:08 and a 31st place finish. Other strong finishers were junior Rachel Strayer, (42nd at 20:58) and junior Emma McLaughlin (76th at 21:56). The girls were highlighted by an overall third-place showing from senior Victoria Simmons , with a time of 18:46. Competing against many top ranked teams from Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee the boys finished 10th and the girls finished 14th. Rome, GA - The boys and girls cross country teams each fared well in the varsity 2016 season opener Saturday morning competing in the Berry College Clara Bowl Invitational. I end this review with this observation: one manipulative, lying Yankee man is no match for a houseful of deceptive and libidinous Southern belles.Cross Country Teams Fare Well in Berry College Invitational Unfortunately, her delicacy on film was also a part of her real life she committed suicide at age 45. Elizabeth Hartman (whose wonderful performance in the film "A Patch of Blue" as a blind girl who falls in love with Sidney Poiter's character is another high point in her short career) is at her prime here, delicate and masterful at the same time. Geraldine Page had a plum role in the film as the headmistress, and I cannot imagine another actress of the time being as good in the role a long shot could have been Piper Laurie, but I don't think Laurie could have embodied the role in the same manner as Geraldine Page. ![]() ![]() Eastwood is excellent in the film, and it is interesting to see him in an early role, or any role, where he portrays a character that is for the most part very unsympathetic. To say much more about the film itself might ruin it for anyone who hasn't seen it.if you are into creepy, Gothic tales, find it and rent it. To say any more than that would spoil the surprises in that first scene. The opening scene of his encounter with the little girl who saves him sets the tone of his character, and the tone of the entire movie. The film sets its tone of creepiness and Gothic horror right from the titles, as it shows real battleground shots from the war, while Eastwood's voice is heard quietly singing a funereal song of the time. She rescues him and takes him back to the school, but instead of notifying the local patrol of his presence so that he will be taken to prison, the headmistress, Miss Martha (Geraldine Page), her assistant Edwina (Elizabeth Hartman), their black servant Hallie (Mae Mercer), and the mostly teenage girls take him in, heal him, and fall under his spell. Clint Eastwood portrays John McBurney, a Union soldier who is shot on Confederate ground and discovered by a young girl from a nearby girls' school. I'm not putting any spoilers in this review, and if you want to see the film as it should be seen, then be careful of looking it up on the internet, as spoiler reviews of it do abound. It is a Gothic tale of deception and horror set in the time of the Civil War, with an underlying tone of eroticism and sexual tension running throughout. Interesting notes: Eastwood and Siegel had to battle with Universal Pictures to keep the original ending, and they won out and, the film was billed as a standard Eastwood western, which it certainly is not. I only had an old battered VHS tape of it until I recently purchased the widescreen DVD, which also includes the hilarious, awful trailer that makes the film come across as a "Peyton Place" soap opera, and conveys none of the creepiness of the film. I first saw this movie in one of my college film classes in the mid-1970's, and was immediately taken with it. An alternate title considered for the film was "Pussy-Footing Down At The Old Plantation", which thankfully was not used, otherwise I am sure raunchy jokes about the fact that it takes place at a girls' school would be difficult to avoid. Directed by Don Siegel, with whom Eastwood collaborated on several films, it was made a year before Eastwood's directorial debut with "Play Misty For Me". "The Beguiled" is one of my favorite Clint Eastwood films, and a departure from his typical early roles. ![]()
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