It Happened Tomorrow

Rating:
Summary: It's no good to know the future
Review: A silly story of a newspaperman (Dick Powell) who is miraculously given tomorrow's newspaper for a few consecutive days and, ultimately, has to prove that the report of his death is greatly exaggerated. IT HAPPENED TOMORROW is a comedy that isn't all that funny and a work of speculation that isn't all that compelling. Powell proves that he can't grow a moustache and looks bad in circa 1905 clothing. Fans of Jack Oakie can expect a couple of chuckles, Linda Darnell is beautiful. Would have given it another star if Powell had broken out into song, any song.

Rating:
Summary: Classic Clair - Always makes me smile
Review: In the Hollywood tradition of the 1940's feel good cinema comes a non-Hollywood production that is just as charming. I will never get bored of this film, from the comic interludes to the hokey ending that was required of all movies in that era. Why, oh why, can't someone produce movies like this anymore? At every turn I, a 21 year old boy, simply thought, "Cool". A must see for anyone who appreciates old fashioned, cheese-ball cinema.

Rating:
Summary: Classic Clair - Always makes me smile
Review: In the Hollywood tradition of the 1940's feel good cinema comes a non-Hollywood production that is just as charming. I will never get bored of this film, from the comic interludes to the hokey ending that was required of all movies in that era. Why, oh why, can't someone produce movies like this anymore? At every turn I, a 21 year old boy, simply thought, "Cool". A must see for anyone who appreciates old fashioned, cheese-ball cinema.

Rating:
Summary: A stinker
Review: One wonders why UCLA spent time and money to refurbish this clunker. Young Linda Darnell, however gorgeous, can barely act. Jack Oakie plays...well, Jack Oakie. Edgar Buchanan is wasted as a cop. Dick Powell, now shedding his dumb tenor roles in those Busby Berkeley films, is competent and does his best to make this unfunny movie at least palatable.

If you're into amateur theatre, you might like this. Otherwise, save your money.

Rating:
Summary: A stinker
Review: The great french master Rene Clair directed this movie when he was in exile in Hollywood. Dick Powell (who is slightly aged at this point; his haydays as a baby face was in the thirties) plays a news paper editor to whom, by some miracle, somebody put's the next day's paper in his pocket. In stead of telling this story as a fairy tale, Clair choses to direct it as a screwball comedy. And his sense of mad-cap comedy is as zany as in his more famous French films such as in Le Million, Les Belles de Nuit, making it a quite an enjoyable comedy with certain philosophical (but never serious) undertone. The tape is made from a beautiful print restored and preserved by UCLA Film-TV Archives. The black and white cinematography and the sets depicting New York at the turn of the century is also a joy to watch.

Rating:
Summary: A Satyrical but Charming Fantasy-Comedy
Review: The great french master Rene Clair directed this movie when he was in exile in Hollywood. Dick Powell (who is slightly aged at this point; his haydays as a baby face was in the thirties) plays a news paper editor to whom, by some miracle, somebody put's the next day's paper in his pocket. In stead of telling this story as a fairy tale, Clair choses to direct it as a screwball comedy. And his sense of mad-cap comedy is as zany as in his more famous French films such as in Le Million, Les Belles de Nuit, making it a quite an enjoyable comedy with certain philosophical (but never serious) undertone. The tape is made from a beautiful print restored and preserved by UCLA Film-TV Archives. The black and white cinematography and the sets depicting New York at the turn of the century is also a joy to watch.