Tomorrow Is Another Day

Extending the “lovers on the run” noir format that goes all the way back to Fritz Lang’s 1937 You Only Live Once, Felix Feist’s gritty Tomorrow Is Another Day winds through diners, dance halls, motels, cabins, car haulers, lettuce farms, even a detour to the top of the Empire State Building. Steve Cochrane and Ruth Roman star as the runaway lovers: ex-con Bill Clark, who served 18 years for patricide, and taxi dancer Cay Higgins, who’s supported by a sugar daddy named George Conover who also happens to be a police lieutenant (Hugh Sanders). When Conover finds Bill and Cay together, a fight ensues, he ends up dead, and the new lovers take off to escape justice, ultimately marrying and establishing new lives and identities in a farming community. But the past can’t be hidden forever. Between urban grime (note Cay’s drab, cramped apartment with a curtain for a closet door) and rural roughness, Feist refrains from even an ounce of glamor here.