The Arrangement (1969)

Advertising executive Eddie Anderson has success in business, comfort in marriage…and a gnawing despair he can’t escape. So one morning he turns his sports car into the path of an 18-wheeler on the freeway – and toward a tumultuous future. Writer/director Elia Kazan cast this riveting film version of his best seller with top-flight actors who capture all the book’s passions and nerve endings. Kirk Douglas as Eddie, Faye Dunaway as his provocative mistress, Deborah Kerr as his uncomprehending wife, Richard Boone as his tyrannical father and Hume Cronyn as a manipulative family attorney all give performances of truth and power. Bold. Insightful. Carnal. The Arrangement is for everyone who’s reached for the brass ring and come up with his/her own arrangement.