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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 79112
Released: May 11, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Two men a drug addict and her brother kidnap a young woman for ransom in france. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/11/2004 Starring: Marlon Brando Gerard Buhr Run time: 93 minutes Rating: R Director: Hubert Cornfield
The Night Of The Following Day Reviews:
"Toss up between Quirky and Brilliant, you be the judge" 
2009-07-26 - Universal Pictures presents "THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY" (19 February 1969) (94 mins/Color) (Dolby Digitally Remastered) --- Marlon Brando is the leader of a gang of ruthless kidnappers --- Some intense scenes and conversations between his co-stars Richard Boone (Leer) and Jess Hahn (Wally) that he wants out of the kidnapping --- Boone is an out of control psycho that will stop at nothing to fill his desires of doing harm to the girl Pamela Franklin they've kidnapped --- Rita Moreno is Wally's sister who has a bad drug habit and is Brando's love interest --- But many of the scenes are Hahn's as he gives the performance of down on his luck wanting this to be the last job person --- This overlooked film has some classic moments, but also does nothing to keep this a Brando and Boone gem.
Under the production staff of:
Hubert Cornfield - Director & Screenwriter
Robert Phippeny - Screenwriter
Lionel White - Screenwriter
Hubert Cornfield - Producer
Jerry Gershwin - Producer
Elliott Kastner - Executive Producer
Al Lettieri - Executive Producer
Stanley Myers - Original Music
Willy Kurant - Cinematographer
Gordon Pilkington - Film Editor
BIOS:
1. Marlon Brando
Date of Birth: 3 April 1924 - Omaha, Nebraska
Date of Death: 1 July 2004 - Los Angeles, California
2. Richard Boone
Date of Birth: 18 June 1917 - Los Angeles, California
Date of Death: 10 January 1981 - St. Augustine, Florida
3. Rita Moreno
Date of Birth: 11 December 1931 - Humacao, Puerto Rico
Date of Death: Still Living
4. Hubert Cornfield
Date of Birth: 9 February 1929 - Istanbul, Turkey
Date of Death: 18 June 2006 - Los Angeles, California
the cast includes
Marlon Brando ... Chauffeur
Richard Boone ... Leer
Rita Moreno ... Vi
Pamela Franklin ... Dupont's daughter
Jess Hahn ... Wally
Gérard Buhr ... Gendarme
Jacques Marin ... Cafe's owner
Hugues Wanner ... Dupont
Al Lettieri ... Al - Pilot (as Al Lettier)
Check out the Marlon Brando 4-Movie Collection (The Ugly American / The Appaloosa / A Countess from Hong Kong / The Night of the Following Day)
also available on this Amazon site:
http://www.amazon.com/Collection-American-Appaloosa-Countess-Following/dp/B0007RTBA6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1248618787&sr=1-2
Looking fit and trim Brando gives an emotionally charged performance, Richard Boone as a sadistic and fiendish killer Jess Hahn as hard-luck and pitiful Wally, Rita Moreno as drug-addicted sister of Wally and Brando's girl-friend is pure acting on the cuff --- Must mention Pamela Franklin as the victim who is kidnapped turns in a truly abusive role --- But don't be fooled, as some of this film drags a bit, but gets going again with a raw and brutal finish --- The Night of the Following Day is a toss up between quirky and brilliant, you be the judge.
Total Time: 94 min on DVD ~ Universal Pictures ~ (05/11/2004)
OFFBEAT, CHIC KIDNAP DRAMA GRABS ON AND WON'T LET GO 
2009-06-07 - Though lightly regarded among critics and rarely discussed among movie afficionados, NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY is worth watching. It's a basic kidnap drama but distinctive because of its motley group of kidnappers and enablers and the locale [France]. The tenuous group includes hall-of-famer Marlon Brando as the brains, Rita Moreno [WEST SIDE STORY, 1961] as his drug-using moll, the vastly underrated Richard Boone as the hired gun from Miami, and a guy named Jess Hahn as Moreno's brother? The kidnapee is played by the always pretty-as-a-daisy young British actress Pamela Franklin whose dad has the bucks to merit such a scheme. As in Franklin's later AND SOON THE DARKNESS [1970], another very interesting flick also filmed in France, this one has a a somber, overcast atmosphere conveying a real sense of isolation and melancholy, and it has an annoyingly prying cop whose intermittent queries raise the tension throughout. The group is tight-knit and has planned well and everything seems to be going smoothly until Moreno relaspes into drug use and Boone's lascivious and self-serving interests become evident. Brando's performance is a bit uneven here , with one scene of ostensible overacting [you'll know the scene easily], but it's fun to watch him anyway especially with that incongruous blonde hair! Moreno is excellent---her hissy fit when Brando prohibits further drug use is a gem. The actor who played her 'brother'? looked more like Archie Bunker's younger brother than a member of the Moreno gene pool. The show is stolen, though, by the long-underappreciated and GREAT Richard Boone who plays the outsider hired for his pro experience BUT there is one minor problem---he is a psychopath with his own agenda. His narration [on tape] to Franklin's dad of instructions for delivery of the ransom is almost spell-binding. With the group falling apart and Boone imposing his will by threatening to kill everybody if HIS orders are not carried out in a timely fashion, Brando is able to outsmart the lunatic at the end and stop him. Enjoyable seeing this vastly talented group of vets together in a film outside of the US. Essential for fans of Brando/Boone and for fans of those wonderfully atmospheric late 60's/early 70's European flicks [suspense/drama/horror]that emanated mainly from England & France.
You've Gotta Be a Brando Fan
2008-02-05 - There's a lot of interesting ideas lying subsurface in this movie, waiting to be developed, especially the "Stockholm syndrome" theme between Pamela Franklin and Brando. Unfortunately, they're presented and dropped before they can be developed.
Richard Boone, one of Hollywood's greatest character actors, plays an amoral sadist here, and his scenes with Brando positively crackle with tension and electricity. Rita Moreno, in a blond wig, is astonishing as the junkie airline stewardess, who makes this caper possible, but endangers it at every turn with her character's thoughtlessness and weaknesses.
There's some very good acting to watch here, and Brando, still in his physical prime, is riveting. Sadly, the pacing of the movie is very slow, and the point of it all seems to be missing. All of the characters are flawed enough to be interesting, but the plot never coalesces to the point where we should care about any of them. The closest thing we get to caring is seeing Brando's character exact his vengence on Richard Boone's dapper sadist.
There's probably a lot of this movie that was left on the cutting-room floor, because the actors obviously cared. The finished product, however, does not contain enough highlights to save the movie from its extended periods of ennui.
Night Of The Following Day
2008-01-07 - The Night Of The Following Day is a tense and rigid psychological heist and kidnapping drama. It was a little taut, to tell you the truth. The story is slow yet intruiging. Well, readers, the slow pace doesn't bore. The most interesting aspect (of the movie) were the characters. The bitter and angry characters affected each other's minds (they turned on each other). As a result of this, the characters soon become embroiled deeper in their predicament.
The cinematography is slick and neat. The cinematography is somewhat opposite to the characters ailing minds. It sends message about the abuse of power and how criminals can take advantage of those who have money.
It has no director's commentary on the disk.
I have never seen Brando so nice and mean. He really captures the complexities and contradicitons of those who live to steal. My conclusion was: Brando was magnetic. Oh, yeah, dynamic.
To be honest, I think this movie was absorbing and compelling.
Matthew Ryan Herfurth
An Underappreciated Gem---Try It!
2007-06-08 - I saw "The Night of the Following Day" yesterday. I'd heard, and expected, it to be typical of Marlon Brando's "stinky sixties" period, when he was just showing up for the check. The hype on this film was totally wrong! It's a period gem!
Richard Boone and, especially, Rita Moreno more than hold their own with Brando. It's refreshing to see the Method man taking something of a backseat to Boone, at least until the very end. And what an end it is---genuinely suspenseful and a true twist which I didn't see coming.
Brando plays, and plays well a sympathetic character among a cast of three-dimensional portrayals. The film is imaginatively photographed; 1969 Paris serves as an attractive backdrop for a movie that gives better than it got from critics at the box office.
At five bucks for the DVD or less than that for the video, give "The Night of the Following Day" a chance. It's a good late night or rainy afternoon movie. You won't be disappointed.
