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An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations
Carol Eve Rossen
- Gloria Anderson
- (as Carol Rossen)
E.J. André
- Uncle Joe
- (as E.J. Andre)
Donna Anderson
- Girl in Motel
- (uncredited)
Brian Andrews
- Child
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaCritics were overwhelmingly negative when the film came out, and it was the consensus that Elia Kazan should never have filmed his own best-selling novel, which was panned by most literary critics as trash when it was published in 1967. It was widely known that the lead role had been turned down by Marlon Brando, who had garnered three Academy Award nominations and was awarded one Oscar under Kazan's direction at the beginning of his film career and was the heart and soul of some of Kazan's best work as a movie director. By the late 1960s, after a string of flops, most critics felt Brando was through as a movie star and that he desperately needed Kazan to turn his career around, both as an artist and as a box-office star. When the film came out, Kirk Douglas' lead performance was roundly panned, and most critics felt that even Brando at his best couldn't save what was, in essence, a melodramatic potboiler. The failure of "The Arrangement" was the end of Kazan's own career as an A-list director.
- GoofsWhen Eddie's father eats the piece of white bread, the number of bites and placement of the bread on the tray or his belly changes between shots.
- Crazy creditsExcept for the title, company logo and "A Film Written and Directed by Elia Kazan," all the remaining credits are at the end, which was still uncommon in those days.
- ConnectionsEdited into Un Américain nommé Kazan (2018)
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gets pretty dark & heavy
Some pretty big names, right at, near, or just past their peaks... kazan, douglas, dunaway, kerr, cronyn. Ed anderson is an ad man. (the irony of the "clean" cigarette campaign.) he has a midlife crisis. And of course, we flash back to what brought him to this point. Everyone wants to know what really caused it... the doctors, the therapists, coworkers, his wife. At the center of all this is gwen, the office "assistant", who doesn't have any clear duties. And now eddie wants to take care of his father, who has dementia. It's a psychological-thinker film. Izzokay. Moves pretty slowly. And gets pretty heavy. Lots of yelling. It's all well done, but i can understand why people thought it was such a downer. And so long. Keep an eye out for harold gould.. he was "miles" on golden girls. Written and directed by elia kazan. According to the trivia section, this kind of became his swan song.
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- $9,536
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