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Director Hubert Cornfield's Night of the Following Day was a surrealistic, purposely ambiguous thriller-at least it was when it was shown in movie theaters in 1969. Originally, the plot revolved round the adolescent daughter of a European millionaire who was apparently kidnaped by a gang of kinky criminals (including Rita Moreno, Richard Boone and Marlon Brando) and carried off to a deserted beach house, where she was held for ransom, threatened sexually and tortured by members of the gang. Cornfield's last scene, however, implied that perhaps the girl's whole story was just...
...scene is an unhealthy-looking cornfield, dark night, no moon. Suddenly police sirens wail, the orchestra sends up shrieks-of-terror music, and automobile headlights pierce the cornstalks, blinding the audience. Police spotlights swim through the corn as two men break through and hurl themselves to the ground. The lights move away, the sirens fade, the men get to their feet, dust themselves off, and begin the harrowing story of long-suffering, downtrodden George and his simple-minded buddy Lennie. Of Mice and Men is once more on the stage, not as a play but an opera...
...version of Of Mice and Men is already scheduled for fall production by the bustling young Kansas City Lyric Theater. In the meanwhile, Seattle operagoers greeted the dramatic yarn of George and Lennie with tense attention. At opera's end, Lennie and George are crouched in the same cornfield. In a final gesture of love, George shoots Lennie to save him from the lynchers, and the curtain falls after the final pistol shot...
...NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY. A routine kidnaping yarn is only the premise for this chilling seminar in the poetics of surrealistic violence conducted by Writer-Director Hubert Cornfield. Outstanding in a small but superb cast is Marlon Brando, who plays a hipster-hood and gives his best performance in a decade...
...NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY. Masquerading as a routine kidnapping melodrama, this is actually an artful thriller directed and co-authored by Hubert Cornfield. Marlon Brando gives his best performance in nearly a decade...