clever psychosexual drama about a wounded union soldier ( clint eastwood ) who seek refuge in an isolated confederate school for young woman during the civil war . slowly and eastwood begin to seduce every girl in sight and until the table be turn and he become the pursue in an unsettling and gothic tone finale . never have a film be so deliciously erotic yet disturbingly macabre at the same time . this be undoubtedly eastwood fine hour ( those who tune in for dirty harry will indeed be surprise ) and while the rest of the cast give uniformly superb performance . try to see the film on video and a television print usually delete crucial flashback scene between geraldine page and patrick culliton .