It Happened Tomorrow

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Kino International took a couple of years to get Rene Clair's It Happened Tomorrow (1944) out on DVD, but the wait was worth it. From the opening credits onward, the movie looks better than this reviewer remembers it from showings on WNEW-Channel 5 during the early 1960's; there are some odd blemishes here and there, and tiny rips show up in the film source at six minutes into the movie; but these have been nicely repaired and otherwise the contrast, the detail, and the overall look of the transfer are ...
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Kino International took a couple of years to get Rene Clair's It Happened Tomorrow (1944) out on DVD, but the wait was worth it. From the opening credits onward, the movie looks better than this reviewer remembers it from showings on WNEW-Channel 5 during the early 1960's; there are some odd blemishes here and there, and tiny rips show up in the film source at six minutes into the movie; but these have been nicely repaired and otherwise the contrast, the detail, and the overall look of the transfer are beautiful--the night shots have a seductively silky look and on the whole,given the minor flaws in the source, this is just about as good as any movie of its vintage that's currently available on DVD. The audio is mastered very low, but it is also clean enough to boost up very well, even if it takes double normal volume to bring the audio up to standard. The 84 minute movie has been given 12 chapters, which fits perfectly into the episodic nature of the plot. The disc opens automatically to a menu that is pretty cleverly designed to play off the images and story-line of the film, and very easy to use. The movie itself is filled with unexpected delights -- it's a fantasy film, to be sure, about an 1890's reporter (Dick Powell) who finds a way to get tomorrow's news a day early, with consequences that turn his world upside down, but it's also filled with myriad comical and romantic conceits, most of the latter involving Linda Darnell, who never looked more alluring in her career.
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All Movie Guide - Bruce Eder
Rene Clair's It Happened Tomorrow (1944) represents a kind of fantasy film that they not only don't make anymore, but wouldn't conceive of making in this way today. It should, on its face, resemble a cross between a Twilight Zone episode and Somewhere In Time, about a pair of lovers (Dick Powell, Linda Darnell) who are destined to meet but also destined to be parted, all by the strange forces surrounding one of them. Instead, Clair makes this into a charming romantic comedy as much as a fantasy film. rather close in spirit to Ernst Lubitsch's Heaven Can Wait (1943). Indeed, the fantasy elements are used as the basis for some surprisingly affecting romantic displays by the characters, sacrificing some haunting mystery elements in favor of a much more beguilingly sentimental story. Period films were considered poison in the early 1940's, and Clair covered his bases there by framing his story around the 50th anniversary of the couple -- which places the film in 1944, the year in which it was released. Clair thus gave It Happened Tomorrow an immediacy in its own time that the movie would have lacked, had it taken place entirely in the 1890's. More important, he focuses on the human elements and the foibles of the lead characters, which carry the tale into the realm of comedy. He also takes full advantage of the range of his performers to achieve this end. Dick Powell displays a brash but tough side, lighter than the rough image he first assumed in 1944 with Murder My Sweet, but heavier and more substantial than the light leading man persona in which he specialized in the 1930's -- he's convincing as an ambitious young reporter, but equally believable at the end, as he tries to take advantage of the forces at work around him, which seemingly have doomed him, trying to secure a future for his beloved, and later fiercely fighting with a thug on a New York street, knowing that he can't die until he gets to the hotel where tomorrow's newspaper says he will die. And Linda Darnell is not only the most delectable looking brunette actress of her era (it's easy to see the allure of her character's phony mystic act, as she looks irresistable in one of her "trances"); in Clair's hands, she also displays a beguilingly innocent, wholesome, lighthearted allure, rather akin to her 20th Century-Fox stablemate Betty Grable -- the scene in which she and Powell meet and change clothes in his room is one of the most charmingly, innocently sexy pieces of film of her whole career. The rest of the cast evokes the gilded age of the 1890's in all of its rough-hewn charm, with Edgar Kennedy especially funny as a blustery police inspector and Jack Oakie, in one of his most robust performances, as well-meaning man caught between his genuine desire to protect his niece and his greed. The film represents an extraordinary balancing act between comedy and drama, romance and fantasy, briskly paced in all of the right places and reflective and myaterious where it needs to be.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 7/22/2003
  • UPC: 738329030322
  • Original Release: 1944

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  • Source: Kino Video
  • Presentation: Black & White
  • Time: 1:24:00
  • Format: DVD

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Dick Powell Larry Stevens
Linda Darnell Sylvia
Jack Oakie Cigolini
Edgar Kennedy Inspector Mulrooney
Edward S. Brophy Jake Schomberg
George Cleveland Mr. Gordon
Paul Guilfoyle Shep
George Chandler Bob
Eddie Acuff Jim
Marion Martin Nurse
Jack Gardner Reporter
Emma Dunn Mrs. Keever
Eddie Coke Sweeney
Robert E. Homans Mulcahey
John Philliber Pop Benson
Sig Rumann Mr. Beckstein
Technical Credits
René Clair Director, Screenwriter
Helene Fraenkel Screenwriter
Rene Hubert Costumes/Costume Designer
Erno Metzner Production Designer
Dudley Nichols Screenwriter
Arnold Pressburger Producer
Fred Pressburger Editor
Eugen Schüfftan Cinematographer
Howard Snyder Screenwriter
Robert Stolz Score Composer, Musical Direction/Supervision
Louis Clyde Stoumen Cinematographer
Archie J. Stout Cinematographer
Hugh Wedlock Jr. Screenwriter
Jack Whitney Sound/Sound Designer
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Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Opening Titles [1:26]
2. Golden Anniversary [2:37]
3. Yesterday's News [4:05]
4. Cigolini & Sylvia [7:06]
5. Wednesday [6:30]
6. Melba [16:32]
7. Body Unrecovered [6:24]
8. A Burglar [8:34]
9. Sweet and Sour [10:06]
10. The Races [7:40]
11. Saint George Hotel [13:36]
12. Closing Credits [:30]
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