The Arrangement

Director: Elia Kazan Elia Kazan

Overview

Florence Anderson (Deborah Kerr), the long-suffering wife of advertising executive Eddie (Kirk Douglas), struggles to understand her husband's affair with Gwen (Faye Dunaway). Eddie goes East to tend to his ailing father Sam (Richard Boone), telling his wife he is done with his affair with Gwen. In an awkward scene, both women attend the funeral of Eddie's father. Arthur (Hume Cronyn) is the family attorney who must untangle the legal mess in the wake of Sam's death. There are some light comedy interludes in this uneven drama taken from director Elia Kazan's 1967 novel. Nudity and four-letter words are plentiful.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/28/2017
UPC:	0888574474638
Original Release:	1969
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Archives
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	2:05:00
Sales rank:	42,314

Special Features

Vintage Featurette: A New Lifestyle; Theatrical Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kirk Douglas	Eddie Anderson
Deborah Kerr	Florence Anderson
Faye Dunaway	Gwen
Richard Boone	Sam
Hume Cronyn	Arthur
Michael Higgins	Michael
John Randolph Jones	Charles
Carol Rossen	Gloria
Ann Hegira	Thomna,Thomna
William Hansen	Dr. Weeks
Charles Drake	Finnegan
Harold Gould	Dr. Liebman
E.J. Andre	Uncle Joe
Michael Murphy	Father Draddy
Philip Bourneuf	Judge Morris
Dianne Hull	Ellen,Ellen
Ann Doran	Nurse Costello
Elia Kazan	Actor
Chet Stratton	Charlie
Barry Sullivan	Chet Collier
Marilyn Jess	Actor
David Amram	Composer

Technical Credits

Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan	Producer,Director,Screenwriter
Larry Jost	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

The Arrangement is a sloppy mess of a movie and will not be very rewarding to most viewers, despite the valiant and often successful efforts of its talented and noteworthy cast. Indeed, Kirk Douglas gives one of his most interesting and deeply felt performances, one which is especially eerie when compared with his son Michael's own midlife crisis
ervous breakdown film, Falling Down. Papa Douglas has the tougher job, as he has to make sense of Elia Kazan's splintered, turgid and often cliched screenplay, but he does very well indeed, showing the audience dark corners of the character's psyche with a fearlessness that is refreshing. Faye Dunaway, looking absolutely stunning, also clears Kazan's hurdles like a champion, and Deborah Kerr completes the main triangle with her poise totally intact. Among the supporting players, Richard Boone is fine as the father and Hume Cronyn does very well indeed. It would be nice if all this talent were in the service of a better project. Kazan's screenplay hops to disguise its triteness by the use of jumps in time, dream sequences and surrealistic moments, but all it does is make an annoying screenplay become very tiresome. As director Kazan seems to spend all his time placating his writing alter ego; the performances bear the mark of the master director, but the film is absent his ability to shape a film into a coherent, let alone involving, piece of cinema.