edwagreen
Very good film showcasing the acting talents of Steve Cochran and as the brassy blond in the first part of the film, Ruth Roman.Rather than his usual tough persona, Cochran comes across quite well as the rather sullen convict leaving prison after 18 years for shooting his no good father. The film shows that he had missed the formative years of life while incarcerated.Trouble seems to follow Cochran as he meets up with Roman, and he thinks he has killed her lover, a police officer.The film deals with their adventures along the way. They wed under assumed names and eventually land in California, where befriended by a couple with a child. Cochran works hard on the land and the two settle down. Naturally, fate intervenes and the couple, through tragedy, are forced to tell who Cochran really is so as to collect the much needed reward money.The ending may not totally satisfy our tastes as Cochran did actually wound another police officer, but we may be happy to see that he and Roman are given another opportunity at life.
sunchicago
Fell into this by accident and couldn't turn it off even though it was 1am ... great story if melodramatic but that's why we love Noir, right? Ruth Roman is wonderful as always and it was fun to watch how easily she turned that platinum blond helmet into brunette (in the motel bathroom) as well as her tough dance-hall girl demeanor into the kind hearted maternal woman! The ingenious ways in which they seemingly easily made their way from NYC to Northern California were fabulous ... Steve Cochran is sure easy on the eyes ... great story but the ending was such that all I could do was laugh! Everyone got what they wanted - including the turncoat!
goblinhairedguy
The first 45 minutes of this Warners programmer is an impressive, surprisingly frank and cynical noir, as an ex-con's attempts to readjust to a bewildering outside world just lead him into more hot water. Ruth Roman is particularly effective (and affecting) as a sassy, worldly-wise platinum-blonde dance hall girl. Once the two of them take it on the lam and she reverts to her natural hair colour, the movie descends into sentimental clichéd melodrama, with Steve Cochran as the protagonist showing off his pecs at every turn, and Roman cloyingly playing at the nurturing wife with the terrible secret -- there are more clinches than in a latter day Muhammad Ali fight. To his credit, director Felix Feist does like to emphasize the key points visually, and the first glimpse of Roman in her tight outfit at the seedy clip joint is striking. But unfortunately, it all amounts to another one of those paint-by-numbers working class Warner Brothers jobs instead of the tour-de-force it starts out to be.
Don-94
This film screened at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on April 7, 1999. It was described in the American Cinematheque schedule as follows:"TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY 1951, Warners, 90 min. Steve Cochran's an ex-con who's never been with a woman. Ruth Roman is a dime-a-dance dame with no use for sappy men. A hotel room, a dirty cop, a gunshot - the perfect jump-off for a fugitives-on-the-run love story. This virtually unknown noir is Felix Feist's masterwork, packed with revelatory set-pieces. Cochran was never more vulnerable, Roman never sexier. Imagine GUN CRAZY scripted by Steinbeck - it's that good."I just saw this film, and I agree with every word of the above description.
AD
