| The Carey Treatment | |
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| Directed by | Blake Edwards |
| Screenplay by | James P. Bonner (pseudonym for Harriet Frank Jr. Irving Ravetch) |
| Based on | A Case of Need 1968 novel by Jeffery Hudson (pseudonym for Michael Crichton) |
| Produced by | William Belasco |
| Starring | James Coburn Jennifer O'Neill Pat Hingle |
| Cinematography | Frank Stanley |
| Edited by | Ralph E. Winters |
| Music by | Roy Budd |
Production company | Geoffrey Productions |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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 later satirized in his 1981 black comedy S.O.B..[1][2]