In a way, he represents the conscience of his profession.

Brando’s daughter Cheyenne, 21, always given to bizarre behavior, has grown worse.

She was pregnant with Dag Drollet’s child, yet reportedly continued to take hallucinogenic drugs.

To support this New Jerusalem, a company he set up offered tourist bungalows at $1,450 per week.

His political interests were escalating too.

Brando’s personal commitment was steadfast, and it coincided with the period ofArthur Penn’s film.

Exactly what took place on the Billings, Mont., set has been debated within Hollywood circles for years.

Brando was booted out in humiliation.

Rejected by those he had sought to help, he took refuge in Tetiaroa.

He phoned one of his father’s employees instead of Brando.

Apparently, Marlon used to slug him with his fist, hard.

Inside the gate, Christian jumped out and ran off into the night."

“Marlon told me not to allow him in the house,” remembers one of Brando’s assistants.

“He’d kick him out for ten days because he wouldn’t get up in the morning.

It took a drastic change in the weather to bring Brando back into films.

The reported reply: “Sorry, Francis.

I wish you the best, but I don’t do six-figure favors.”

Brando’s performance was described by reviewer Vincent Canby as “a profoundly anticlimactic intellectual muddle.”

He withdrew more and more into self-imposed isolation high atop L.A.’s Mulholland Drive.

Tarita, his common-law wife, was living with another man.

One was a movie about Native Americans.

The other was about what he considered to be the CIA’s involvement in the narcotics crisis.

Neither film ever made it before the cameras.

Christian, meanwhile, was living in the Hollywood fast lane.

Drugs, liquor, guns, and women who were attracted to his name began to take over.

Distraught, Marlon Brando strong-armed his son through two detox programs, but nothing seemed to work.

As always, he didn’t want his children in show business, even in an off-screen capacity.

He played a hired assassin.

Things were worse for Christian’s younger sister.

By the time the second film opened, however, his career was scarcely a priority to Marlon Brando.

Two months earlier, Christian had killed Dag Drollet.

The murder galvanized Brando into a rare burst of public energy.

It seemed likeCecil B. DeMilledirecting an epic; it also seemed like Don Corleone taking care of business.

More than anything else, of course, it seemed like a father trying desperately to save his son.

It is an undisputed fact that Christian pulled the trigger.

What for prosecutors looked to be a “tryable” first-degree murder case turned out to be more complicated.

For one thing, the detective who arrested Christian Brando failed to read his Miranda rights correctly.

Since the shooting, she has spent more time in hospitals than at home.

There was a bullet hole just below his left cheekbone.

Even so, the D.A.

’s office decided to cut a deal.

It is rumored that many film offers have been made to Brando since the shooting.

He is not wealthy by Hollywood standards, and he may again find acting a necessity.