What is True Confessions / Night of the Following Day about?

Name: True Confessions / Night of the Following Day
Genre: Drama,Suspense/Thriller

TRUE CONFESSIONS, 1981, MGM Repertory, 108 min. When a girl is murdered (à la the Black Dahlia) in 1948 Los Angeles, cop Robert Duvall believes his brother, monsignor Robert DeNiro’s parishioner, Charles Durning, may be involved. Screenwriter John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion adapt Dunne’s novel. Director Ulu Grosbard (STRAIGHT TIME) focuses on character, rather than a standard whodunit, something that led the movie to be damned with faint praise. A great lost film of the 1980’s. NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY, 1968, Universal, 93 min. In director Hubert Cornfield’s dreamlike suspenser, heiress Pamela Franklin is snatched by Marlon Brando, his stewardess girlfriend Rita Moreno, her brother Jess Hahn and sadistic double-crosser, Richard Boone.

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What is True Confessions / Night of the Following Day about?: TRUE CONFESSIONS, 1981, MGM Repertory, 108 min. When a girl is murdered (à la the Black Dahlia) in 1948 Los Angeles, cop Robert Duvall believes his brother, monsignor Robert DeNiro’s parishioner, Charles Durning, may be involved. Screenwriter John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion adapt Dunne’s novel. Director Ulu Grosbard (STRAIGHT TIME) focuses on character, rather than a standard whodunit, something that led the movie to be damned with faint praise. A great lost film of the 1980’s.

NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY, 1968, Universal, 93 min. In director Hubert Cornfield’s dreamlike suspenser, heiress Pamela Franklin is snatched by Marlon Brando, his stewardess girlfriend Rita Moreno, her brother Jess Hahn and sadistic double-crosser, Richard Boone.