The Carey Treatment

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..

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 ........

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