It arrived tomorrow

It arrived tomorrow ( It Happened Tomorrow ) is an American film of Rene Clair carried out in 1944 with Hollywood.

Synopsis

At the time of the ceremony of his wedding anniversary, a growing old man reminds the incredible facts which arrived to him, at the time where it met his wife, and wished to become a famous journalist. All started - flash back - when it made the wish, after having drunk some glasses with his/her colleagues, to be able to know the events before they occur… “Yes yes, it is possible”, tells him the old archivist. With his alarm clock the journalist will discover that the newspaper that it has out of pocket is not that of the day, but that of the following day…

Data sheet

original Title: It happened tomorrow
Scenario and dialog: Clear Rene, Dudley Nichols and Helene Fraenkel according to a play of Lord Dunsany and a history of Hugh Wedlock Jr., Lewis R. Foster, Howard Snyder.
Images: archie Stout
Assembly: Fred Pressburger
Music: Robert Stolz
Sound: William Lynch
Production: Arnold Pressburger - United Artists
Black and white
Year: 1944
Lasted: 85 minutes

Distribution

Dick Powell: Larry Stevens
Linda Darnell : Sylvia
Jack Oakie: Cigolini
Edgar Kennedy: the inspector Mulrooney
Edward Brophy
George Cleveland
Sig Ruman
…

Comments

For this film, Rene Clair takes again a scenario which Frank Capra tried to carry out (there is besides the impression to view a film in Capra ). It is initially with Cary Grant that Rene Clair intended the main role.

the Hollywood period of Rene Clair counts four feature-length films: this one, the Beautiful Enchantress with Marlène Dietrich in 1940, My Wife is a witch with Veronica Lake in 1942, then in 1945, Ten small Indians adaptation of the novel almost éponyme of Agatha Christie. One can add to it in 1941 a sketch, 1897 , for Forever and has Day .

Derived series

A series (Tomorrow with) is derived from this film: a man receives each morning the newspaper of the following day on his door mat, brought by a mysterious cat.

Film whose French title should not be confused with

It was

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