While imprisoned in a Confederate girls boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's heartsn and becomes the object of their sexual fantasies.
It's perhaps their most atypical and most psychologically fascinating, showing Eastwood as more of a sexual being than most of his other, iconic films ever did.
We're used to Eastwood playing a hero, so we accept his casual words and silky delivery without really questioning it
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
July 11, 2013
Southern Gothic that sinks too deep into the bayous of sexploitation and horror towards the end, Don Siegel's adaptation of Thomas P Cullinan's 1966 novel is still ripe and pungent enough to intermittently fascinate.
