clint eastwood play a wounded union soldier find by a girl from a confederate board school and he take in and nurse back to health instead of turn over to confederate soldier . seem that the woman folk at this place have ulterior motif . geraldine paige and the headmistress and justifies not turn him into the confederacy and even pass him off a her cousin . of course when the man get to feel well he become quite the lady man and be pretty much make the round and but when he get bust he really get bust and in fact so badly he get his leg cut off and but it for his own good and of course and not out of retribution . thing get carry a bit further though when certain woman do not get what they want . i haven not see this for year and it still have a certain creepiness to it that by today standard be still pretty strange . not typical eastwood at all . if you haven not see this one it worth see . positive .