You won't see tomorrow
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | You won't see tomorrow |
| Original title | Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gordon Douglas |
| script | Horace McCoy |
| production | William Cagney |
| music | Carmen Dragon |
| camera | J. Peverell Marley |
| cut |
Walter Hannemann Truman K. Wood |
| occupation | |
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Tomorrow you will not experience (Original title: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye ) is an American film noir and gangster film from 1950. The film directed by Gordon Douglas is based on the novel Shadows of the Past by Horace McCoy . James Cagney starred as a gangster for the fifth time - after The Public Enemy , Chicago - Angels With Dirty Faces , The Roaring Twenties and Leap To Death .
action
The film begins with a court hearing. The indicted are a group of people who were all connected to the dead felon Ralph Cotter, including two police officers, a prison guard and a lawyer. In several flashbacks it is told how their paths crossed those of Cotters:
With the help of the bribed guard Cobbett, the ruthless criminal Ralph Cotter manages to escape from prison. He kills his injured, handicapped fellow inmate Ralph Carleton himself. He makes Carleton's sister Holiday submissive and blackmailed the corrupt police officers Weber and Reece after they had convicted him of a robbery. Cotter marries Margaret Dobson, the wealthy daughter of a powerful industrialist, and also rises to head a betting organization. Margaret asks him to leave town with her, and Cotter agrees. He drives to Holiday to pick up his belongings deposited with her. Holiday, who has since found out about Cotter's marriage and his brother's murder, shoots Cotter with the words “you won't see tomorrow”. The trial ends with the conviction of all guilty parties.
background
In the morning you will not experience began on August 4, 1950 in the US and on June 6, 1957 in the cinemas of the Federal Republic of Germany .
criticism
Fred Camper, reviewer of the Chicago Reader, criticized Douglas' "incoherent" directing and compared the film to Leap to Death , which he considered to be far stronger. In contrast, Geoff Andrew of the Time Out Film Guide rated You will not experience tomorrow as "outstanding". The "strong acting performance" and Douglas' "tight, classic directing" placed him among the best post-war gangster films .
The lexicon of international film praised James Cagey's portrayal as "usual skill", but the film as such is only a "schematically constructed gangster film".
literature
- Horace McCoy: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. Random House, New York 1948
- Horace McCoy: Shadows of the Past. Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1989
Web links
- In the morning you will not experience in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Analysis by film journalist John O'Dowd
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward (Ed.): Film Noir. An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, Third Edition. Overlook / Duckworth, New York / Woodstock / London 1992, ISBN 978-0-87951-479-2 , pp. 160-161.
- ↑ a b You won't see tomorrow in the dictionary of international films .
- ↑ Review in The Chicago Reader of October 26, 1985, accessed March 10, 2013.
- ^ Time Out Film Guide, Seventh Edition 1999. Penguin, London 1998, p. 481.