chilling in movie-screen history. Jess Hahn, as hard-luck Wally, steals the show. He has the look and build of a man who has been dealt the worst of bad luck. Rita Moreno as Wally's drug-addicted sister and Brando's girl-friend, is at her rawest. And a young Pamela Franklin as the kidnap victim shines in a truly abusive role.Raw acting, graphic brutality, realistic action, a surprise ending, and out-standing acting performances makes The Night Before The Following Day a Marlon Brando classic.

Boone is just plain frightening as Leer, a menacing whacko out for the double cross. Dont waste your time looking at any edited versions of this film, they will make no sense at all, but if can find the un-cut version, this movie will make your skin crawl

of Marlon Brando's top 10 acting roles.

before! It would be great to know the background of this movie and the making of it! Pamela Franklin either liked the "victim" roles or they were the ones that were available to her at the time. ANOTHER interesting fact that I and many others would like to know! Who directed her choices? Who was her mentor? Where were her Parents? This is a DVD that I would certainly love to purchase unless it is only on VHS at this time.

present a vision and let the audience decide if they liked it; not a focus group or committee of studio executives. American films reached a certain creative peak in the late 60's and early 70's before the blockbuster knocked everything else off the playing film. This is a serious movie for people that are looking a little deeper than the surface for enrichment. This is a movie that causes you to FEEL something. You may feel bored, hypnotized or energized but you won't walk away feeling nothing.The performances are all strong, especially Brando as a "chauffer" that leads the gang. While the heavy Richard Boone may explain to the kidnap victim that "we are all professional criminals" they certainly don't act like it. Their desperation is evident as the plot unravels.The ending is much discussed on this very site, for instance but it is quite satisfying along the lines of Fritz Lang's "The Woman In The Window" but it is not an obvious copy as it took me several hours to come up with the comparison.

pull off this caper and avoid the underlying violence. Interesting tension develops between bad Boone and not-so-bad Brando, with Jess Hahn sort of stealing the show as a kind of non- violent pickpocket desperate just to get the money. In addition it's a pretty far way from where Rita Moreno was in West Side Story.