| |  | VHS Tomorrow Is Forever |  | | | | | | | | | | Rating:  - A brilliant melodrama
Possibly Welles' most underrated role. His performance is simply superb, as are the others in the cast. Also watch for Natalie Wood, astonishingly accomplished in this role that required that she perfect a foreign accent, and show a trememdous range of emotion at the age of what, perhaps 5 or 6? Claudette Colbert shows why she was one of the top female actresses of her era and beyond. Dialogue a bit overdone in one or two places, but the rest of the film and Welles are so excellent this minor flaw is easy to forgive. A great melodrama, at the level of "Random Harvest," and very few others. How can this not be a dvd???
Rating: - PowerfullyTense Emotion
One of the most emotion-wrenching movies I've seen in years is "Tomorrow is Forever".The only thing I can compare it to is "Random Harvest" which was another highly emotional movie about love detoured by a WWI battle injury.Frankly, I'm not sure I could handle much more emotional tension that what these movies bring to the screen.In the case of "Tomorrow is Forever" we see the story of a happily married man who goes off to war promising his beloved wife that he will return.We next see him in a German military hospital, face covered with bandages, wanting to die due to the extremity of his wounds.The wife back home gets a killed in action letter and eventually remarries and begins a new life.Obviously, the story reunites wife 1 with husband 1 and that is the core of the movie.This whole scenario is brilliantly set up.Sure, it's next to impossible.However, it's so skillfully done that we don't care to disparage the results.This aspect of the film is what sets it (and "Random Harvest" as well) apart from all the other Bette-Davis-soap-opera style, tear-jerkers of the past and present.
As the movie reaches its' climax, we have created our own preferred outcomes.In the end, we are left with (we reluctantly admit) the correct resolution to the dilemna.We are convinced by the writer, the director, and the awesome acting by Orson Welles and, to a somewhat lesser extent, Claudette Colbert.The scenes involving these two are taut with emotion and the dialogue is worthy of Welles's talent.The film's title carries a meaning that is only truly understood after watching the movie.I will be thinking about this one for a long time.
Rating: - ALL STAR CAST; GREAT MOVIE
This is a movie that will stand the test of time. A thought provoking, tear-tugging classic set in the World War I and II era when America was at its best. Orson Welles was at the top of his acting career, Claudette Colbert was great and Natalie Wood was charming as an orphaned child adopted by Welles' character. What a cast!! A personal favorite of mine, easily overlooked, was young Brian, played by Sonny Howe. When he stood up and declared, "As for me, give me liberty or give me death", it gave me goosebumps. Kids today would do well to grasp the sense of duty that young Brian spoke of in that line.
Rating: - A REAL FILM
This film was a favorite for my whole family. We have gone through VHS til they were worn. WE WANT TO SEE IT ON DVD, even without extras!!!!!!!!!
Rating: - Possibly the best film of all time
Tomorrow is Fovever is possibly the best film of all time;at least, it is my favorite.I won't elaborate on all the fine points of the directing and acting as they are already wonderfully described in the other reviews, except to say that this is NOT an anti-war film; in fact, the film clearly illustrates how sacrifices must be made and tragedies must be lived with if the world is to be free of those that would enslave others.The central theme of this beautiful story is that to live in the present and for the future we often must let go of our past.Here a woman, having lost her husband in one war, let her fear and dispair live for 19 years resulting in her reluctance to support her son in his honorable committment to help suppress the Nazi takeover of Europe and eventually the world.But, the story is not about war, rather it concerns the emotional battles between love, remorse, and bitterness that go on inside the human mind. One thing not mentioned in other reviews is the musical score which blends more perfectly with the story than any of other films of this genre and it carries the emotional feeling of the story so well that it is almost invisible as music.Bless the soul that finally puts this film on DVD.
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