The Carey Treatment

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Carey Treatment, 1972.

TCM's new Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The Carey Treatment, 1972.

Packing loads of cool from California, James Coburn as the title character arrives as his new Boston hospital, greeted by Murphy (John Fink), old pal David (James Hong) and prospect Georgia (Jennifer O’Neill), Blake Edwards directing, from a novel by Michael Crichton, in The Carey Treatment, 1972.

New-in-town pathologist Carey (James Coburn) and Boston divorceè and dietitian Georgia (Jennifer O'Neill), establishing their early-70's liberated singles relationship, working on location, Blake Edwards directing, in The Carey Treatment, 1972.

Dr. Carey (James Coburn) at work, director Blake Edwards establishing characters, Karen (Melissa Torme-March), Dr. Sanderson (Regis Toomey) and Dr. Randall (Dan O'Herlihy), in The Carey Treatment, 1972.

Crisp scene from a movie director Blake Edwards wound up disowning due to studio-enforced cuts, pathologist Carey (James Coburn) meets cop Pearson (Pat Hingle), having just visited a friend wrongly charged with killing a young woman in a botched abortion, in The Carey Treatment, 1972.