It Happened Tomorrow

Mar 31, 1944

1h 25m

★ 6.7

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Overview

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

Genres

Fantasy

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Arnold Pressburger Films

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Cast

Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens

Dick Powell

Sylvia Smith-Stevens

Linda Darnell

Uncle Oscar Smith

Jack Oakie

Insp. Mulrooney

Edgar Kennedy

Pop Benson

John Philliber

Jake Shomberg

Edward Brophy

Mr. Gordon

George Cleveland

Mr. Beckstein

Sig Ruman

Shep

Paul Guilfoyle

Bob

George Chandler

Jim

Eddie Acuff

Justice of the Peace (uncredited)

Robert Dudley

Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s 'The Lost Generation', Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman and her fiancée, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.

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