Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951 American film)

Tomorrow Is Another Day is a 1951 American crime drama film noir directed by Felix E. Feist and starring Ruth Roman and Steve Cochran.

Now wary of people and unused to women, Bill is attracted to taxi dancer Cathy "Cay" Higgins, who initially rejects his advances.

Cathy informs Bill that Conover is actually a New York police detective and urges him to go his own way, believing that the policeman would not want publicity from pressing charges for the shooting.

Bill and Cathy are persuaded to join them, and they find honest work and happiness, making a comfortable home out of their workers cottage.

[1] A review in The New York Times was dismissive: "Apart from one sequence when the pair hide in a car being transported by truck to effect their escape, Tomorrow Is Another Day follows an ancient formula.

"[2] The Brooklyn Eagle wrote: "Steve Cochran and Ruth Roman are the fugitive couple, and a very interesting pair of runaways they make, too.

The theme of 'Tomorrow is Another Day' is not without precedent of one kind or another, but in this case it is worked out with some nice, fresh details....The ending is strictly for those who see the picture, because a lot of enjoyable suspense would be shattered by telling it here, but it's quite satisfactory, if a little too good to be true.

Competently directed by Felix Feist (The Devil Thumbs a Ride/The Threat/Donovan's Brain), as always, and adequately written by Guy Endore (blacklisted after the movie for his political activism) and Art Cohn.

Though watchable, the social conscious film remains forgettable--unable to leave a particularly sympathetic lasting impression of its outsider characters, whose distrust of the authorities leads them to be anti-social types and humorless downers for most of the pic.