The Beguiled is a 1971 American Southern Gothic film directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page. The script was written by Albert Maltz and is based on the 1966 novel written by Thomas P. Cullinan, originally titled A Painted Devil.
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The Beguiled-A Rare Original Vintage Movie Poster for Don Siegel's Southern Gothic Thriller with Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page. While imprisoned in a Confederate girls' boarding school, an injured Union soldier (Clint Eastwood) cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him. As the brutal Civil War still rages on, a twelve-year-old student of Miss Martha Farnsworth's Seminary for Young Ladies in Mississippi stumbles upon a gravely wounded Union soldier, Corporal John McBurney (Clint Eastwood). Taken in to recover from his injuries, McBurney is imprisoned in a small room inside the mansion. Before long, the seductive and unwanted guest manages to take advantage of the female inhabitants' neglected desires but is McBurney really in control? This Don Siegel/Clint Eastwood collaboration is a strange and hypnotic drama that was left by the wayside in 1971 and what a pity. A fascinating character study set in the mysterious and gothic south during wartime. Geraldine Page is a superb actress and she's perfectly cast. Elizabeth Hartman (who died too young) is undeniably brilliant as a young woman repressed by the trials of war. This is one of Clint Eastwood's greatest roles as an actor yet the film was surprisingly released the same year as DIRTY HARRY and did no business. Unusual release choice as Don Siegel directed both and collected better reviews for this gothic masterpiece. ACTORS: Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Hartman, and Geraldine Page DIRECTOR: Don Siegel WRITER: Albert Maltz CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bruce Surtees SCORE: Lalo Schifrin THIS IS A VINTAGE, ORIGINAL POSTER PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE MOVIE STUDIO. THIS IS NOT A "REPRINT" OR A "REPRODUCTION". POSTER SPECIFICS: FILM YEAR: 1971 COUNTRY: USA (Country of Origin) POSTER TYPE: US 1-Sheet SIZE: 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm] MAILED: Rolled (Poster was originally Folded when shipped to the theater and has been stored flat by VCA for preservation and future framing) CONDITION: This Poster is in "FINE to VERY FINE" condition, remarkable as it's over 52 years old. This gorgeous poster is glossy white and blue with a vibrant red paisley design. The poster's white border is bright with great image detail. This poster has average surface, fold and edge wear for its era. Lithographs with light creasing at folds are common for posters of this age as they were mailed to theaters folded (See Photo detail). This poster is a rare and special find and will look amazing framed! Please refer to the Photo detail and the grading status in the "9-GRADE" System graphs in the photo log. Magnets were used in the photography of these posters so as to limit handling and wear. These magnets are silver and visible in photographs in each of the poster's (4) corners. Please Note: These Posters are anywhere from 20-70 years old and were issued to movie theaters at the time of the film's release. All Posters came through Auction, Gallery purchase, or from the original movie theater proprietors. Although all posters are stored FLAT and carefully maintained, original poster art of this age can never be in perfect unused condition as it was originally displayed in a Movie Theater. Any Folds, Tears, or Pinholes are detailed in the notes and close-up pictures. Any glare in the image is due to the camera angle and is not a defect in the poster. There are NO REFUNDS, RETURNS, or EXCHANGE on the sale of original movie posters. Given the age and fragility of these vintage posters, it’s not possible to offer refunds after the poster has been shipped and handled. We've gone to great lengths to detail in notes and photographs the specifics of each poster's condition and individual attributes. Don't hesitate to contact us through Etsy if you have additional questions. We want you to make your purchase with complete confidence. The purchase of original, vintage movie posters is an investment in poster art and movie history. Please consider your purchase carefully to plan display and/or storage options once you receive your poster.
While I was in Alabama, I had a free day to do some exploring. What a day it turned out to be. I headed toward Selma, following in reverse the route that the Voting Rights Marchers of 1965 took from Selma to Montgomery. It all began here, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama Rivera at Selma. On March 7, 1965, several hundred African-Americans began a march to Montgomery to demand voting rights in the wake of the killing of a young black boy in nearby Marion, Jimmie Lee Jackson. On the other side of the bridge they were met by armed and mounted police who used whips, rubber tubing wrapped in barbed wire and tear gas. The scene was caught on film and broadcast nationwide. After another peaceful crossing of the bridge, the final march began on March 21, 1965. By the time they reached the Alabama Statehouse on March 25th, they numbered some 25,000 people, black and white, from all over the country. These events spurred President Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which still is law today. The town of Selma sits on bluffs over the river and in the heart of the Black Belt cotton-growing region of Alabama. Artesian wells are everywhere in the region. Here is a beautiful one in downtown Selma. Another view of the 1940 Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River. Alice Randall, author of The Wind Done Gone and Ada's Rules, spoke at the Alabama Book Festival in Montgomery about her Alabama roots, including kinship with Confederate General Pettus. Here is the Last Supper painted on a window. From Selma, I drove a little way west to the site of Cahaba, or now called Old Cahawba, the first permanent capital of the state of Alabama (from 1820-1826). Today, it is a ghost town. It was one of the most marvelous places I have ever visited. Some of the streets have been cleared and some old town lots are mowed. There are still structures, abandoned, and remnants of the city's former life. Most important towns in the early 19th century were located along rivers for ease of transportation. Cahaba was sited at the confluence of the Alabama and Cahaba Rivers. The spot is lush and almost tropical. After the capital was moved to Tuscaloosa (and finally Montgomery), Cahaba languished until the railroad came in 1859. After the Civil War, the county courthouse was relocated to Selma and Cahaba was abandoned by whites. There was still a thriving community of Freedmen here, though, who were politically organized. By the end of the century, there were only a few farmers left. The town's buildings were demolished and the brick sold. There are just a few remnants left, but they are gothic and mysterious. Cahaba is famed for its ghosts, too, as memorialized by Alabama folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham. From near the old center of town, the Alabama River. A lone chimney where a prison that held 3,000 Union soldiers once stood. Brick columns, all that is left of a grand mansion that overlooked the river. The confluence of the Cahaba and Alabama Rivers The grave of Mealy Starke in the African-American burial ground, a haunting spot. One of the abandoned homes, originally built in the 1840s. All that is left of the substantial brick Methodist Church, built c. 1854. An artesian well still flows into its elaborate brick basin. The only thing that's full here is the cemetery--in a beautiful ruin. The old iron fences, from the 1850's, still stand around many family plots. A beautiful monument, a broken column, a Victorian trope, covered in vines. A row of family plots. A broken obelisk. A beautiful tree in a prairie in the midst of Old Cahawba. A fancy wellhead shaped like a face, dated 1852. The beautiful prairies of Central Alabama. After spending several hours wandering Old Cahawba, I wanted to take a look at Gee's Bend, too. Famous for its long-established and innovative quilting community. The landing for the car ferry. You can take a ride on the river for $3.00. The community/quilting center--this is where it happens. The streets of the village have these large pictorials of the beautiful, abstract quilts.
Photo by Hajime Sawatari, late 1960s-early 1970s.
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Musician, poet and folklorist Joshua Clegg Caffery of Franklin reinvents the lyrical folk heritage of southern Louisiana with his new book of poetry, “In the Creole Twilight: Poemsand Songs from Louisiana Folklore,” published by LSU Press. Caffery, author of “Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana” and currently a visiting professor in folklore at Indiana University in Bloomington, uses rhythmic structure, styles and narratives of Louisiana oral and song traditions with stories that range from the freaky folklore of the loup garou to the heartfelt story of a father playing imaginary dinosaurs with his daughter, based on benedictions used at rural French weddings. Poems include an Irish Bend resident in love with a Native American girl whom he abandons after the birth of their child. The child dies and becomes the fearful feufollet, or swamp gases, until the youngest in town attempts to “finish this thing.” There’s a sing-song poem relating old superstitions and something humorous about two mischievous godparents named Gabriel and Madeline with roaming eyes, among so many other wonderful tales. Caffery offers insights into his poetric subjects with explanations and folklore history. The feufollet, for instance, comes from the old story of swamp gases being unbaptized children but Caffery uses family genealogy to round out the story. A founding member of the Red Stick Ramblers and a longtime member of the band Feufollet, Caffery has been nominated for a Grammy for his work on the Feufollet album “En Couleurs.” He has also served as the 2013–14 Alan Lomax Fellow in Folklife Studies at the Library of Congress. ULL lectures University of Louisiana at Lafayette Writer-in-Residence Dr. John McNally will present the 20th Annual Gloria Fiero Lecture at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Ducrest Guilfry Auditorium at Angelle Hall on the UL campus. He will speak on “The Art of Failure,” addressing the necessity and benefits of failure as a crucial part of the creative process. The lecture is free and open to the public. McNally is author or editor of 14 books, including three novels, “After the Workshop,” “The Book of Ralph” and “America’s Report Card.” His short story collection “Troublemakers” was the winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and the Nebraska Book Award and “Ghosts of Chicago” was named a Chicagoland Indie Bestseller and voted one of the top 20 fiction books of 2008 by readers of The Believer. His nonfiction books include “The Creative Writer’s Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist” and “Vivid and Continuous: Essays on the Craft of Fiction,” both published the University of Iowa Press. The Chicago native is also the author of four books which will be published over the next three years: a young adult novel out next month, “Lord of the Ralphs” historical novel, a book about failure and its benefits and a collection of personal essays. William Pittman Andrews, executive director of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, will give the annual Flora Levy Lecture, hosted by the Department of English, at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Angelle Hall. Andrews will speak on “George Rodrigue: Painting to the Frame,” a phrase coined by Rodrigue referring to his use of frames reclaimed from various sources. An exhibit of Rodrigue’s paintings of former Flora Levy speakers is on loan from the UL Foundation and the Rodrigue Foundation in New Orleans to the Paul and Lulu Hilliard Art Museum on the UL-Lafayette campus until Jan. 2, 2016. For more information, call (337) 482-2278. At the library The Friends of the Ouachita Public Library Book Sale will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the West Ouachita Library on 188 Hwy. 546 (Exit 108 from I-20) in West Monroe. Big Easy Read “Readings ‘Round the Big Easy: A Celebration of National Reading Group Month” will feature a host of authors beginning at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the New Orleans Museum of Art in City Park of New Orleans. Nancy Dixon, author of “New Orleans Lit: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature,” will be the keynote speaker. Authors include John Ed Bradley (“Call Me by My Name”), C.S. Harris (“Who Buries the Dead: A Sebastien St. Cyr Mystery”), Sybil Morial (“Witness to Change: From Jim Crow to Political Empowerment”), Tiffany Quay Tyson (“Three Rivers”), Kent Wascom (“Secessia”), Karen White (“The Sound of Glass”) and Richard Wall, husband of the late Carol Wall, author of “Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart.” The event includes a noon book club meet and greet, 1 p.m. keynote speech, 2 p.m. author panel with Susan Larson, 3 p.m. booksigning in the museum gift shop and 3:30 p.m. afternoon tea with authors in Café NOMA. All events are free except for the tea, which is $38 per person, registration required by Sept. 18. For information or to register for the tea, mail a check to Sheila Cook, Librarian, New Orleans Museum of Art, P.O. Box 19123, New Orleans, LA 70179. Book events Christina Vella signs “George Washington Carver: A Life” at 6 p.m. Monday at Octavia Books in New Orleans. Stuart Stevens discusses and signs his book, “The Last Season: A Father, A Son and a Lifetime of College Football” at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Garden District Book Shop of New Orleans. Military historian, author and authority on German U-boats C.J. Christ will discuss “World War II in the Gulf of Mexico: Documenting a War Close to Our Shores” at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Jeanerette Museum, 500 E. Main St. in Jeanerette. Christ has published hundreds of articles and regularly lectures on military issues. He will discuss his years of research as he searched for the German submarine U-166 in the Gulf of Mexico. This free program is more suitable for an adult audience. A book signing will follow the event. For more information, call (337) 276-4408 or email [email protected]. Festival of Words literary organization hosts a multilingual open mic from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Chicory’s Coffee and Café, 219 E. Martin Luther King Drive in Grand Coteau. The free event features poems, songs and stories performed in different languages. All ages welcome. Elise Blackwell signs “The Lower Quarter” at 6 p.m. Thursday at Octavia Books of New Orleans. Blackwell is the author of “The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish” and “Hunger.” George Sanchez reads and signs his latest Jeff Chaussier New Orleans mystery “Explorations End” at 6 p.m. Thursday at Garden District Book Shop in New Orleans. New York Times best-selling author Lea Michele signs her new book, “You First: Journal Your Way to Your Best Life” at 4 p.m. Saturday at Garden District Book Shop. To receive a wrist-band for this limited event, participants must purchase the book from Garden District Book Shop after it goes on sale Tuesday. Dixie Poché of Lafayette celebrates Acadiana’s mom and pop groceries and restaurants in “Classic Eateries of Cajun Country” and she will discuss the tradition of Cajun boucheries in a book launch and food demonstration from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum in New Orleans. During the food demo, guests may sample pork dishes such as boudin, hogs head cheese and ponce prepared by Luke Deville of Teet’s Food Store from Ville Platte and French bread from Lejeune’s French Bread of Jeanerette. Poché is a corporate and travel writer and graduate of ULL in journalism. Cheré Dastugue Coen is the author of “Forest Hill, Louisiana: A Bloom Town History,” “Haunted Lafayette, Louisiana” and “Exploring Cajun Country: A Historic Guide to Acadiana” and co-author of “Magic’s in the Bag: Creating Spellbinding Gris Gris Bags and Sachets.” She also writes Louisiana romances under the pen name of Cherie Claire, “A Cajun Dream” and “The Letter.” Write her at [email protected].
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