Boone and Gerard Buhr as a friendly cop are also quite good and Moreno is also very memorable as the kidnapper with the drug problem. I thought the actor was quite good in the part and I enjoyed the more psychological nature he brought the character. Brando delivers a pretty good performance here as the kidnapper who quickly realizes this plan isn't working. What I enjoyed most about the film was the cast. While there are certainly many flaws with the picture I think it's a rather underrated kidnapping yarn. For fans of Marlon Brando this was released during a period when the actor was struggling or just not really caring what type of movies he was doing as long as there was a paycheck attached. THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY didn't make much of a splash when it was originally released and throughout the decades it still hasn't gained much of a cult following.
Soon it becomes clear that the kidnapper's most difficult thing is going to be dealing with each other. She had previously referred to the Oscar winner as the “lust of my life.”īrando, who died in 2004 at the age of 80, had a complicated personal life that included multiple marriages and eleven children.The Night of the Following Day (1968) *** (out of 4) A girl (Pamela Franklin) finds herself kidnapped by a group of kidnappers (Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno) but is sworn her life is safe as long as her father pays the ransom. “It was one of those very tempestuous love affairs.” “He was the king of movies … he was really one of the most sexual men on Earth,” she said. In 2018, Moreno revealed to Wendy Williams what kept their relationship going for so long. The good part of him, the good Marlon that Rita loved. He was ready to have a go again,” she explained. But by then Moreno was married to cardiologist-turned-manager Leonard Gordon with whom she shared one daughter, Fernanda. The pair came together again on the set of the 1969 film “The Night of the Following Day” during which Moreno claims Brando wanted to renew their relationship. It was an attempt.” Moreno reunited with Brando on-screen for “Night of the Following Day” in 1969. “I really didn’t seem to understand that. “I didn’t understand that if I was going to kill this pathetic, sad, trod-upon Rita, the rest of Rita was also going to go with me,” she said. She then admitted she “tried to end life with pills in his house.” I could read him like a book and that’s why he loved me, and that’s why he mistreated me in so many ways.” “I’d say, ‘Marlon, look at me.’ And he’d start to grin this kind of - I don’t want to use the bad word - that poop-eating grin. The EGOT winner went on to explain that Brando would often try and lie to her, but she always knew. She added, “He was a bad guy when it came to women. He was extraordinary in many, many ways, but he was a bad guy.” “Ultimately, it was exciting to be with Marlon,” Moreno told Jessica Chastain during Variety’s “Actors on Actors” chat. The “West Side Story” actress, now 90, was on-and-off with the actor for almost a decade after meeting on the set of “Désirée” in 1954 when she was just 22 years old. Rita Moreno revealed her eight-year relationship with Marlon Brando was so volatile she once tried to take her own life. Bill O’Reilly on his newest book, ‘Killing the Mob’
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