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Weeding out a Civil War snake in the Garden of Eden
Published Thu, Sep 7, 2017 · 09:50 PM
IN 1864 Virginia, three years into the American Civil War, a gated girls' boarding academy takes in a Union Army deserter found wounded in the woods.
So begins Thomas Cullinan's 1966 novel The Beguiled.
The first screen adaptation in 1971 was a lurid revenge drama by the macho Dirty Harry director-star duo of Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood, centring on Eastwood as the soldier.
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