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The Carey Treatment
The Carey Treatment is a 1972 American crime thriller film directed by Blake Edwards and starring James Coburn, Jennifer O'Neill, Dan O'Herlihy and Pat Hingle. The film was based on the 1968 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 satirized in his 1981 black comedy S.O.B.
Dr. Peter Carey is the new pathologist at a Boston hospital. He befriends his colleagues and falls in love with dietitian Georgia Hightower. The hospital is run by surgeon J.D. Randall. Police are investigating a series of morphine thefts at the hospital. One night, Dr. Randall's daughter Karen dies in the emergency room after a botched abortion.
Dr. David Tao is arrested for performing the abortion. Carey pretends to be his lawyer in order to visit him in jail. Tao admits to charging $25 for illegal abortions, because he was horrified at how women suffered at the hands of amateurs. However, Tao says he did not perform Karen's abortion. Police Captain Pearson warns Carey to leave the case alone, but Carey hates the idea of his innocent friend going to prison.
The post-mortem reveals that whoever did the procedure had curettage knowledge but pierced the endometrium, causing the fatal hemorrhaging. Karen's blood work shows she was not pregnant. Carey suspects she missed a few periods and panicked into getting an abortion. He questions Karen's roommate Lydia Barrett. She confesses that she hated Karen for stealing her boyfriend Roger Hudson. Carey visits Hudson at the massage parlor where he works. He sees nurse Angela Holder leaving as he arrives.
Carey deduces that Holder was stealing the hospital's drugs for Hudson to sell. He gets Holder to confess to performing the abortion to fund her drug habit. Hudson goes berserk and tries to kill Carey multiple times before Pearson kills him.
Film rights to Jeffrey Hudson (a pseudonym for Michael Crichton)'s novel A Case of Need were purchased in August, 1968 by A&M Productions, the production company of Herb Alpert with filming announced to begin the following year in Boston. In October Perry Leff signed Wendell Mayes to a two-picture contract to write and produce, the first of which was to be A Case of Need.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer then acquired the film rights. In March, 1971, it was announced that Bill Belasco was producing and Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch were working on a script.
In June, 1971, Blake Edwards was signed to direct. This was considered surprising because Edwards had clashed with MGM head James Aubrey during the making of Wild Rovers. Edwards' wife Julie Andrews later wrote "for reasons I can only guess at, Blake took the bait. Perhaps there was some compulsion on his part to make things right, or perhaps he simply wanted to finally win out against the man who had caused him such pain." Aubrey promised Edwards he would finance The Green Man, a project of Edwards' to star Julie Andrews. The cast included Aubrey's daughter Skye.
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The Carey Treatment
The Carey Treatment is a 1972 American crime thriller film directed by Blake Edwards and starring James Coburn, Jennifer O'Neill, Dan O'Herlihy and Pat Hingle. The film was based on the 1968 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 satirized in his 1981 black comedy S.O.B.
Dr. Peter Carey is the new pathologist at a Boston hospital. He befriends his colleagues and falls in love with dietitian Georgia Hightower. The hospital is run by surgeon J.D. Randall. Police are investigating a series of morphine thefts at the hospital. One night, Dr. Randall's daughter Karen dies in the emergency room after a botched abortion.
Dr. David Tao is arrested for performing the abortion. Carey pretends to be his lawyer in order to visit him in jail. Tao admits to charging $25 for illegal abortions, because he was horrified at how women suffered at the hands of amateurs. However, Tao says he did not perform Karen's abortion. Police Captain Pearson warns Carey to leave the case alone, but Carey hates the idea of his innocent friend going to prison.
The post-mortem reveals that whoever did the procedure had curettage knowledge but pierced the endometrium, causing the fatal hemorrhaging. Karen's blood work shows she was not pregnant. Carey suspects she missed a few periods and panicked into getting an abortion. He questions Karen's roommate Lydia Barrett. She confesses that she hated Karen for stealing her boyfriend Roger Hudson. Carey visits Hudson at the massage parlor where he works. He sees nurse Angela Holder leaving as he arrives.
Carey deduces that Holder was stealing the hospital's drugs for Hudson to sell. He gets Holder to confess to performing the abortion to fund her drug habit. Hudson goes berserk and tries to kill Carey multiple times before Pearson kills him.
Film rights to Jeffrey Hudson (a pseudonym for Michael Crichton)'s novel A Case of Need were purchased in August, 1968 by A&M Productions, the production company of Herb Alpert with filming announced to begin the following year in Boston. In October Perry Leff signed Wendell Mayes to a two-picture contract to write and produce, the first of which was to be A Case of Need.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer then acquired the film rights. In March, 1971, it was announced that Bill Belasco was producing and Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch were working on a script.
In June, 1971, Blake Edwards was signed to direct. This was considered surprising because Edwards had clashed with MGM head James Aubrey during the making of Wild Rovers. Edwards' wife Julie Andrews later wrote "for reasons I can only guess at, Blake took the bait. Perhaps there was some compulsion on his part to make things right, or perhaps he simply wanted to finally win out against the man who had caused him such pain." Aubrey promised Edwards he would finance The Green Man, a project of Edwards' to star Julie Andrews. The cast included Aubrey's daughter Skye.