The Carey Treatment
5.6 /10 1 Votes
2/4 Roger Ebert Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller Duration Language English | 6.2/10 IMDb Director Blake Edwards Music director Roy Budd Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date March 29, 1972 (1972-03-29) Based on A Case of Need
1968 novel
by Jeffery Hudson Writer Michael Crichton (novel), John D.F. Black (screenplay), Harriet Frank Jr. (screenplay), Irving Ravetch (screenplay) Cast James Coburn (Dr. Peter Carey), Jennifer O'Neill (Georgia Hightower), Pat Hingle (Capt. Pearson), Skye Aubrey (Nurse Angela Holder), Elizabeth Allen (Evelyn Randall), John Fink (Chief Surgeon Andrew Murphy)Screenplay Harriet Frank, Jr., Irving Ravetch, John D. F. Black Similar movies Self/less , Hipnos , Mission: Impossible III , The Expendables 3 , Stonehearst Asylum , Friends with Benefits Tagline Peter Carey M.D.: arrives from the coast - finds hypocrisy in a big Boston hospital - and a brilliant surgeon accused of abortion that turns to murder. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Carey Treatment is a 1972 film by Blake Edwards based on the novel A Case of Need credited to Jeffery Hudson, a pseudonym for Michael Crichton. Like Darling Lili and Wild Rovers before this, The Carey Treatment was heavily edited without help from Edwards by the studio into a running time of one hour and 41 minutes; these edits were later satirized in his 1981 comedy S.O.B..
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- Roy budd the carey treatment 1972 starring james coburn
- Plot summary
- Cast
- Production
- Reviews
- Accolades
- References
Roy budd the carey treatment 1972 starring james coburn
Plot summary
Dr. Peter Carey (James Coburn) is a pathologist who moves to Boston, where he starts working in a hospital. He soon meets Georgia Hightower (Jennifer O'Neill), with whom he falls in love. Karen Randall (Melissa Torme-March), daughter of the hospital's Chief Doctor, becomes pregnant and is brought to the emergency department after an illegal abortion. She dies there, and Dr. David Tao (James Hong), a brilliant surgeon and friend of Carey, is arrested and accused of being responsible for the illegal abortion. Carey does not believe his friend to be guilty and starts investigating on his own, despite strong opposition by the police and the doctors around the hospital's chief.
Cast
Production
Film rights were bought in 1969 by AM Productions, the production company of Herb Alpert. They were then picked up by MGM and filming started in September 1971.
Edwards launched a breach of contract suit against MGM and president James Aubrey for their post production tampering of the film. Edwards:
The whole experience was, in terms of filmmaking, extraordinarily destructive. The temper and tantrums from my producer, William Belasco, were such that he insulted me in front of the cast and crew and offered to bet me $1,000 that I'd never work in Hollywood again if I didn't do everything his and Aubrey's way. They told me that they didn't want quality, just a viewable film. The crew felt so bad about the way I was treated that they gave me a party - and usually it's the other way round. I know I've been guilty of excuses but my God what do you have to do to pay your dues? I made Wild Rovers for MGM and kept quiet when they recut it. But this time I couldn't take it. I played fair. They didn't.
Reviews
The Carey Treatment received mostly mediocre to negative reviews. Roger Ebert wrote, "The problem is in the script. There are long, sterile patches of dialog during which nothing at all is communicated. These are no doubt important in order to convey the essential meaninglessness of life, but how can a director make them interesting? Edwards tries." Vincent Canby of The New York Times was amused by the film but wrote, "...I don't think we have to take this too seriously, for 'The Carey Treatment,' like so many respectable private-eye movies, is sustained almost entirely by irrelevancies."
Accolades
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
References
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