Marlon Brando Collection: Night of the Following Day / The Ugly American (Double Feature)
From gunslinger to aristocrat, from con artist to ambassador, Marlon Brando's performances and characters are unforgettable. This is a truly unique collection of the man who changed the face of American film acting forever.
Includes 2 Marlon Brando Classics on a double-sided DVD:
The Night Of The Following Day (1968, 93 min, Colour, directed by Hubert Cornfield)
The Ugly American (1963, 120 min, directed by George Englund, also includes FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono)
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Two forgotten gems from the 1960s - HJS33
These two films prove that Brando did not waste his talents in the 1960s.
The Night of the Following Day, a violent, pessimistic and existentialist thriller, is characterized by its nightmarish mood: Director Hubert Cornfield successfully portrays a world of never ending terror symptomatic of the culture of the late 1960s. Brando’s character Bud is one of the criminals who abduct the daughter of a millionaire only to turn against each other in pursuit of the ransom money. Brando’s Bud, enigmatic and always dressed in black, is frightening but Richard Boone’s character, who initially seems to be a prototypical gentleman gangster, is even more vicious.
In The Ugly American Brando plays the American ambassador to a Southeast Asian country. Brando’s ambassador is essentially a Cold War liberal intellectual who, in Brando’s words, “brought with him all the misconceptions and self-interest of the American ruling class. I regarded him as a metaphor of the ways the United States condescendingly and selfishly treated poorer nations in the so-called Third World. In hindsight I now realize that the movie was also a metaphor for all the policies that led to Vietnam and the loss of 58,000 American lives, largely because of myths about the ‘Communist conspiracy’ and the ‘domino theory’…”Only for serious fans - KristaJo
The Night of the Following Day is a mediocre and not very thrilling thriller. Brando is in great physical shape, but there's not much here for him to sink his teeth into.
The Ugly American is a rather dated political drama dealing with the Cold War and the "Third Way" set in a fictional country but filmed in Thailand. Good performances by both starring actors, but this film is all about its message, which will serve little purpose for contemporary viewers.
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Two forgotten gems from the 1960s - HJS33
These two films prove that Brando did not waste his talents in the 1960s.
The Night of the Following Day, a violent, pessimistic and existentialist thriller, is characterized by its nightmarish mood: Director Hubert Cornfield successfully portrays a ...Only for serious fans - KristaJo
The Night of the Following Day is a mediocre and not very thrilling thriller. Brando is in great physical shape, but there's not much here for him to sink his teeth into.
The Ugly American is a rather dated political drama dealing with the Cold War ...