Tomorrow Is Another Day **** (1951, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle, Bobby Hyatt, Ray Teal) – Classic Movie Review 6704

‘You can’t dance. What did you come up here for? ‘

‘To meet somebody.’

‘I don’t give private lessons.’

Director Felix E Feist’s short and snappy 1951 Warner Bros film noir crime thriller Tomorrow Is Another Day stars Steve Cochran as a loser lowlife mobster Bill Clark / Mike Lewis, who gets out of jail, falls in love with a dance hall girl and goes on the run into hiding with her as farm labourers, thinking he has murdered his lover’s jilted boyfriend.

Ruth Roman in Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951).

Tomorrow Is Another Day is a hugely presentable, attractive romantic action thriller, much enlivened by a commendably hard as nails performance by Ruth Roman as Cochran’s moll, ‘Cay’ Higgins, though Cochran is good too.

Even if overall the story, based on Guy Endore’s Spring Kill, lacks a great deal of credibility, Feist ensures some tense action sequences and Endore ensures some great pulp dialogue in a lively, excellent little film noir.

Tomorrow Is Another Day runs 90 minutes, is written by Guy Endore and Art Cohn, is shot in black and white by Robert Burke, is produced by Henry Blanke, and scored by Daniele Amfitheatrof.

Also in the cast are Lurene Tuttle, Bobby Hyatt, Ray Teal, Maurice Ankum, Lee Patrick, John Kellogg, Hugh Sanders, Stuart Randall, Harry Antrim and Walter Sande.

The title Tomorrow Is Another Day of course comes from the last line of Gone with the Wind. Scarlett O’Hara says: ‘Tara. Home. I’ll go home, and I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.’

Ruth Roman (December 22, 1922 – September 9, 1999).

Ruth Roman (22 December 1922 – 9 September 1999) is best remembered for the same year’s Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train (1951).

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1951 MOVIE LOBBY CARD for Tomorrow Is Another Day.