It Happened Tomorrow. 1944. Directed by Rene Clair

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It Happened Tomorrow. 1944. USA. Directed by Rene Clair. Courtesy Cohen Film Collection

It Happened Tomorrow. 1944. USA. Directed by Rene Clair. Screenplay by Dudley Nichols and Rene Clair. With Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie. DCP . 85 min.

Loaned out by Fox to independent producer Arnold Pressburger, Darnell brings a spark of life to an oddly depressive wartime fantasy film directed by French exile René Clair. Dick Powell, nearing the end of his run as a romantic lead, plays a bright young newspaper man at the turn of the century whose wish for a leg up in his business is granted by a ghostly old man who gives him a copy of tomorrow’s newspaper. Powell’s apparent clairvoyance—he’s able to predict a spectacular box office robbery—draws him to a stage psychic (Darnell, dressed in gorgeous show gowns by René Hubert) and her hustling uncle (Jack Oakie).

This film accompanies Modern Matinees: Linda Darnell, Dark Lady of Fox.

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