The Night of the Following Day (1968)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Hubert Cornfield

Writers:

Hubert Cornfield (writer)
Robert Phippeny (writer)

Release Date:

26 December 1968 (Sweden)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

Because of the unusual ending no one will be admitted during the final 14 minutes!

Plot:

Two men kidnap a girl off the streets, take her to a beach house owned by a drug-addicted stewardess, and hold her for ransom.

Plot Keywords:

Ransom | Beach | Criminal | France | Love

Cast

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)

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Gina Production

Trivia:

Stanley Kubrick was originally interested in adapting Lionel White's "The Snatchers", upon which this movie was based. However, due to a ban on the subject of kidnapping in the 1950s, Kubrick opted to do The Killing (1956), which was also based upon a Lionel White story.

Quotes:

[He's been concealing a gun]
Leer: You know, some day, somebody is gonna invent a comfortable gun.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Once Upon a Body (1969)

Freaky!

Night of the Following Day is as freaky as it's title is meaningless. Blonde-haired Marlon Brando and his blond-haired girlfriend (Rita Moreno) along with a couple of un-trustworthy accomplices decide to kidnap a rich British girl and ask for ransom. What starts out a fairly straightforward crime caper soon develops into an over-the-top psychodrama as the criminals begin getting paranoid and start double-crossing each other. Richard Boone is exceptional as Brando's chief nemesis...a ruthless turncoat who'll stop at nothing to get his piece of the ransom. Of course, he's going up against Brando, so...you know the rest. Boone's craggy, pock-marked face and perpetual scowl have seldom been put to such good use. Brando and Moreno are dynamite and clearly have A LOT of chemistry. Pamela Franklin plays the unlucky victim.

This is one of several odd-ball movies Brando made during the '60s (see Morituri, The Apaloosa, etc) and one of the least known. It's definitely worth seeing!