Tomorrow (1972)
- Director(s):
- Joseph Anthony
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Tomorrow
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
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 103 mins
Complete Cast of Tomorrow
- Jeff Williams - H.T. Bookwright
- Robert Duvall - Jackson Fentry
- Johnny Mask - Boy
- Richard McConnell - Isham Russell
- William Hawley - Papa Fentry
- Olga Bellin - Sarah Eubanks
- James Franks - Preacher Whitehead
- Sudie Bond - Mrs. Hulie
- Peter Masterson - Lawyer
- Director(s):
- Joseph Anthony
- Writer(s):
- Horton Foote, William Faulkner
- Producer(s):
- Paul Roebling
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG(Questionable for Children, Violence)
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