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| Actors: Lois Austin, George Brent, Claudette Colbert, Helen Gerald, Henry Hastings
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 4117
Format: Black & White, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
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Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6302413419
UPC: 027616251237
EAN: 9786302413410
ASIN: 6302413419
Theatrical Release Date: 1946
Release Date: September 1, 1998
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 Preposterous But Eminently Watchable Melodrama Thanks Mainly to an Enigmatic Welles October 17, 2006
Ed Uyeshima (San Francisco, CA USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Despite the movie's Harlequin-level romance novel title, the unlikely pairing of classic Hollywood leading lady Claudette Colbert and resident bad-boy Orson Welles actually works in this intriguing albeit far-fetched 1946 melodrama directed by the relatively undistinguished Irving Pichel. Written by Lenore J. Coffee, the plot concentrates initially on newly married John and Elizabeth McDonald, who are suddenly separated when he enlists for combat duty during WWI. Just as she discovers she is pregnant, Elizabeth receives word that John is dead, but the truth is that he is so badly injured that he doesn't want to return to her as a cripple. Once recovered, he takes on the guise of an Austrian scientist named Erik Kessler. Twenty years elapse, and Elizabeth has remarried to businessman Larry Hamilton, who has coincidentally recruited Kessler to test the company's new product formula. Elizabeth meets Kessler but does not recognize him to be her long lost John due to plastic surgery. However, John knows her, and they become intertwined again when their son Drew decides to enlist in the RAF years before the U.S. enters WWII.
The story sounds preposterous on paper, but it is quite compelling to see the movie evolve toward its inevitable resolution. Colbert is her naturally effervescent self, though she is well into her forties here and a mite too mature for the early scenes when she is playing a blushing newlywed to the twelve-years younger Welles. Nonetheless, she provides surprising bite to the scenes where Elizabeth confronts her own prejudices about war. In the juiciest role, Welles has a field day as the crippled, defeated Kessler as he keeps his naturally grandiose manner in check. Perennial also-ran George Brent is wooden as expected as Hamilton, but a couple of familiar faces shine as the children - Richard Long as the grown Drew and an eight-year old Natalie Wood, blonde and sporting a convincing Austrian accent, as Kessler's adopted daughter Margaret. There are some lapses in credibility beginning with Elizabeth's inability to recognize John and ending with her rather sudden resignation that John is right in his perspective on the past. Regardless, it's a surprisingly involving movie with a mature perspective on love and war, a curio sadly forgotten today and well worth a look now.
Powerfully Tense Emotion May 8, 2006
Randy Keehn (Williston, ND United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
One of the most emotion-wrenching movies I've seen in years is "Tomorrow is Forever". The only thing I can compare it to is "Random Harvest" which was another highly emotional movie about love detoured by a WWI battle injury. Frankly, I'm not sure I could handle much more emotional tension that what these movies bring to the screen. In the case of "Tomorrow is Forever" we see the story of a happily married man who goes off to war promising his beloved wife that he will return. We next see him in a German military hospital, face covered with bandages, wanting to die due to the extremity of his wounds. The wife back home gets a killed in action letter and eventually remarries and begins a new life. Obviously, the story reunites wife 1 with husband 1 and that is the core of the movie. This whole scenario is brilliantly set up. Sure, it's next to impossible. However, it's so skillfully done that we don't care to disparage the results. This aspect of the film is what sets it (and "Random Harvest" as well) apart from all the other Bette-Davis-soap-opera style, tear-jerkers of the past and present.
As the movie reaches its' climax, we have created our own preferred outcomes. In the end, we are left with (we reluctantly admit) the correct resolution to the dilemna. We are convinced by the writer, the director, and the awesome acting by Orson Welles and, to a somewhat lesser extent, Claudette Colbert. The scenes involving these two are taut with emotion and the dialogue is worthy of Welles's talent. The film's title carries a meaning that is only truly understood after watching the movie. I will be thinking about this one for a long time.
A brilliant melodrama May 15, 2006
R. Yeager (Oakland, CA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Possibly Welles' most underrated role. His performance is simply superb, as are the others in the cast. Also watch for Natalie Wood, astonishingly accomplished in this role that required that she perfect a foreign accent, and show a trememdous range of emotion at the age of what, perhaps 5 or 6? Claudette Colbert shows why she was one of the top female actresses of her era and beyond. Dialogue a bit overdone in one or two places, but the rest of the film and Welles are so excellent this minor flaw is easy to forgive. A great melodrama, at the level of "Random Harvest," and very few others. How can this not be a dvd???
I saw this movie when I was a very young child May 20, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I will never forget this movie. It was one of the best movies I have ever seen.
A thought provoking movie. July 21, 2005
Movie and Music lover! (HOLLYWOOD, California)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Wow, what an interesting movie!
This is the story of a patriotic, and newly married man (Welles) who goes to war for his country. He becomes badly injured in the war, but his wife (Colbert) is told via telegram that he is dead. Meanwhile, back in the states, his wife discovers that she is pregnant. She mourns the death of her husband, then approximately 1 year later she marries someone else. Eventually 20 years pass, and the original husband comes back to the states and winds up working for Colberts new husband. What a quandary...
This is quite a story and makes one wonder what one would do in the same situation...
The acting was excellent in this movie. Welles was wonderful. Claudette Colbert was equally wonderful in her role as the wife. I was pleasantly surprised at a very young Natalie Wood, who had blond hair in this film. What a cute little girl she was!
I love movies like this and I really liked this movie. I hope you will as well.
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