Warner Bros. Home Entertainment outlined its new-to-Blu-ray film catalog selections for the month of May this past week.
The Great Escape moved his acting career forward, but it was Our Man Flint in 1966, and the sequel, In Like Flint (1967), that moved James Coburn from character actor/second billing status to leading man. The “leading man” film that Warner Bros. has plucked from its vast library is none than James Coburn’s April of 1972 film release of The Carey Treatment … on Blu-ray for the first time on May 10.
A little-known writer, John Lange, was suddenly catapulted into prime time with his 1969 novel, “The Andromeda Strain,” and its successful screen adaptation by Robert Wise in 1971. Suddenly, “Lange” didn’t have to write under pseudonyms for very much longer … you have likely come to know him as Michael Crichton.
The scramble was on, has this guy written anything else? Well, under the pseudonym “Jeffrey Hudson,” he had written the Edgar Award-winning novel titled “A Case of Need” in 1968. Herb Alpert had acquired the rights, but it wasn’t until 1971 that it became a hot property over at MGM.
Blake Edwards, who had scored big-time with Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Days of Wine and Roses and The Pink Panther was to be the director, the husband/wife writing team of Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr (they shared Oscar nominations for their Hud and Norma Rae scripts) were brought in to do a re-write on the script that Alpert had ordered … and James Coburn would be the lead as Dr. Peter Carey.
He plays an uprooted Californian pathologist, who has taken a new job in Boston, where he meets a dietician by the name of Georgia (Jennifer O'Neill) and strikes up a relationship. All is well and good.
But, then one evening there is an emergency room incident, involving a botched abortion, that sets him on the course of being a detective when a fellow colleague is falsely accused of a crime. This “investigation” will see murder, mystery and himself becoming a target when he digs too deep into what is going on behind the scenes at the hospital.
Also making its Blu-ray debut is a new 4K film restoration of director Victor Fleming’s 1941 film adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novella, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Spencer Tracey, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner.
The street date will be May 17.
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