Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951 American film)
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| Directed by | Felix E. Feist |
| Screenplay by | Art Cohn Felix E. Feist |
| Story by | Guy Endore |
| Produced by | Henry Blanke |
| Starring | Ruth Roman Steve Cochran Lurene Tuttle |
| Cinematography | Robert Burks |
| Edited by | Alan Crosland Jr. |
| Music by | Daniele Amfitheatrof |
Production company | Warner Bros. |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tomorrow Is Another Day is a 1951 crime drama film noir directed by Felix E. Feist, starring Ruth Roman and Steve Cochran. An ex-convict who thinks he killed a man goes into hiding with a woman whose boyfriend is the supposed murder victim.[1] The title of the film comes from the last line of Gone with the Wind.
Plot
Convicted of murder at age 13, Bill Clark is freed after 18 years behind bars. He meets a taxi dancer, Catherine Higgins, but when her New York City police detective boyfriend George Conover catches them together, Bill is knocked out. When he awakens, Conover has been shot.
Bill knows the cops will come after him. He doesn't realize Catherine's the one who shot her boyfriend. She volunteers to go with him and they hitch-hike to California, falling in love along the way. They accompany the Dawson family to the lettuce fields of Salinas, where they find honest work and happiness, changing their identities.
A reporter's article about Clark is found by the Dawsons, who need money badly and turn in Bill for a reward. But back in New York, police reveal that before Conover died, he confessed that Catherine shot him in self-defense. She and Bill are cleared to resume their lives.
Cast
- Ruth Roman as Catherine "Cay" Higgins
- Steve Cochran as Bill Clark / Mike Lewis
- Lurene Tuttle as Mrs. Dawson
- Ray Teal as Mr. Dawson
- Morris Ankrum as Hugh Wagner
- John Kellogg as Dan Monroe
- Lee Patrick as Janet Higgins
- Hugh Sanders as Detective Lt. George Conover
- Stuart Randall as Frank Higgins
- Robert Hyatt as Johnny Dawson
- Harry Antrim as Warden
- Walter Sande as Sheriff
Reception
Critical response
Film critic Dennis Schwartz seemed disappointed with the film, writing "Gloomy minor film noir with a happy ending. The movie was made for John Garfield, but he died in 1951. A satisfactory Steve Cochran takes the part and gives it his best shot. Competently directed by Felix Feist (The Devil Thumbs a Ride/The Threat/Donovan's Brain), as always, and adequately written by Guy Endore (blacklisted after the movie for his political activism) and Art Cohn. Though watchable, the social conscious film remains forgettable--unable to leave a particularly sympathetic lasting impression of its outsider characters, whose distrust of the authorities leads them to be anti-social types and humorless downers for most of the pic."[2]
References
- ^ Tomorrow Is Another Day at AllMovie.
- ^ Schwartz, Dennis. Ozus' World Movie Reviews, film review, January 11, 2011. Accessed: July 17, 2013.
External links
- Tomorrow Is Another Day at IMDb
- Tomorrow Is Another Day at AllMovie
- Tomorrow Is Another Day at the TCM Movie Database
- Tomorrow Is Another Day informational site and DVD review at DVD Beaver (includes images)
- Tomorrow Is Another Day film scene on YouTube
