Tomorrow

• Director: Joseph Anthony
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Courtroom Drama
• Themes: Murder Investigations
• Main Cast: Olga Bellin, Robert Duvall, James Franks, Johnny Mask
• Release Year: 1972
• Country: US
• Run Time: 103 minutes
• MPAA Rating: PG

Plot

Horton Foote was the adapting hand behind this superlative black and white filmization of the 1939 William Faulkner story Tomorrow. Framed in flashback, the film explores the personal reasons that semi-literate farmer Robert Duvall is the lone jury holdout in the guilty verdict for a young killer on trial. We learn in a gradually unfolding fashion that the boy is the son of Olga Bellin, a woman with whom Duvall had had an intense personal involvement some twenty years earlier. Foote's script had previously been utilized on a Playhouse 90 TV version of Tomorrow, which starred Sterling Hayden. Universally regarded as the best-ever film adaptation of a Faulkner work, Tomorrow was in danger of vanishing without truly finding its audience, when it was given a well received TV premiere on PBS on December 17, 1984--twelve years after the film was made. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Olga Bellin - Sarah Eubanks; Sudie Bond - Mrs. Hulie; Richard McConnell - Isham Russell; Robert Duvall - Jackson Fentry; Peter Masterson - Lawyer; William Hawley - Papa Fentry; James Franks - Preacher Whitehead; Johnny Mask - Boy; Jeff Williams - H.T. Bookwright

Credit

Ed Brennan - Costume Designer, Alan Hopkins - First Assistant Director, Joseph Anthony - Director, Reva Schlesinger - Editor, Irwin Stahl - Composer (Music Score), Allan Green - Cinematographer, Paul Roebling - Producer, Horton Foote - Screenwriter, William Faulkner - Short Story Author

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