Tomorrow (1972)
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74% of users liked it
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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… More 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, Rovi
- Directed By
- Joseph Anthony
- Written By
- Horton Foote
- Genres
- Drama, Classics
PG,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1999 Wide
- Studio
- MVD Music Video
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Cast
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Olga Bellin
as Sarah Eubanks
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Sudie Bond
as Mrs. Hulie
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Richard McConnell
as Isham Russell
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Robert Duvall
as Jackson Fentry
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Peter Masterson
as Lawyer
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William Hawley
as Papa Fentry
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James Franks
as Preacher Whitehead
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Johnny Mask
as Boy
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Jeff Williams
as H.T. Bookwright
- Dick Dougherty
- Effie Green
- Ken Lindley
- R.M. Weaver
- Joseph Anthony
