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Thursday, May 31, 2018

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     It Happened Tomorrow
1944  NR  FANTASY  1h 25min
CAST— Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie, Edgar Kennedy, John Philliber, Edward Brophy, George Cleveland, Sig Ruman, Paul Guilfoyle
MUSIC— Robert Stolz  DIRECTOR— René Clair  BASED ON— The Jest of Haha Laba (play), by Lord Dunsany

     What if it did happen tomorrow and you were the first to know about it? That’s the idea behind this interesting, if slight, allegory featuring Dick Powell as a newspaper reporter getting the latest scoop before the presses are even hot. Powell receives tomorrow’s paper one day in advance, reading about the stories before they happen. What he chooses to do with his knowledge leads him down a path that almost ends in disaster; and when he reads the report of his own death, it’s a desperate struggle to keep his sanity. Told with comic undertones and carried at an easy pace. An entertaining if unremarkable fantasy.
OUR RATING— ** ½
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