Genre:
Thriller / Drama
Directed
by: Don Siegel
Cast:
Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page
Running
time: 105 minutes
During the American Civil War, John McBurney,
a wounded Union soldier, is found by 12 year old Amy, just outside the gate of
the Mississippi seminary school for girls where she is a student. McBurney is
brought inside, where headmistress Martha Farmsworth decides to bring him back
to health before reporting him to the Confederate troops. Being an isolated man
in a house filled with women and girls might be more than the wounded soldier
can take.
The action of this film feels a little too
static and complacent for a Clint Eastwood movie. The pace is slow, and the
story is melodramatic to the max. Some of the acting was okay, but, in other
cases, it was over-the-top. There was also that very awkward scene towards the
beginning where Eastwood’s character tells a 12 year old girl that she’s old
enough to kiss and then plants a smooch on her lips.
Overall, though this film has gotten great
reviews in the past, I just did not feel it.
Rating: ««
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