Tomorrow Is Forever (1946) [w/Commentary]

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald (Claudette Colbert) learns with shock that her husband, John Andrew (Orson Welles), has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.



Audio Commentary by Film Score Restorationist Ray Faiola of Chelsea Rialto Studios. Mr. Faiola provides an entertaining and informative tour through the film's genesis and production, with some biographical tidbits and commendable attention to Max Steiner's lovely score. The commentary also includes excerpts from an old radio broadcast version of the film, in the first such example of such a use that I can personally recall. If you're a little slow on the uptake like some people (ahem), it may take you a minute to realize that when Mr. Faiola mentions Lucile Watson's name as incorrectly containing three "l"'s in the credit listing, he's including the initial letter of her first name.