Athena/Warner. Director Elia Kazan; Producer Elia Kazan; Writer Elia Kazan; Camera Robert Surtees Editor Stefan Arnsten; Music David Amram Art Gene Callahan
Kirk Douglas
Faye Dunaway
Deborah Kerr
Richard Boone
Hume Cronyn
Dianne Hull
The Arrangement is a one-man production show; consequently, one man is responsible for a confused, overly-contrived and overlength film peopled with a set of characters about whom the spectator couldn't care less. In a four-way plunge, Elia Kazan produced and directed from his own screenplay based upon his own 1967 novel.
Three principals in a story focusing on a man's problems and bafflements are Kirk Douglas, Deborah Kerr and Faye Dunaway.
The talents of cast are taxed but they almost rise above their assignments. Douglas plays a successful Los Angeles advertising man, apparently a wizard account exec, wed to Kerr, a long-suffering wife who tries tounderstand her husband's obsession for Dunaway, with whom he's been carrying on a tumultous affair.
(Color) Widescreen. Available on VHS. Extract of a review from 1969. Running time: 125 MIN.
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