Stubs - Tomorrow is Forever

 

Tomorrow is Forever (1946) Starring: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucille Watson, Richard Long, Natalie Wood. Directed by Irving Pichel. Screenplay by Lenore Coffee. Based on the novel Tomorrow Is Forever by Gwen Bristow (New York, 1943). Produced by David Lewis. Black and White. USA. Run Time: 104 minutes. Drama, Romance, War

Every Saturday night, we sit down to watch a movie that I recorded on the DVR but have not yet watched. Some of these go back several years and I’ve been trying to delete the ones that seem to be on the bubble or those the DVR has labeled as “Last Chance”. Recently, we watch one of the older films on the list, Tomorrow is Forever.

The film is based on the novel, Tomorrow is Forever, written by Gwen Bristow and first published in the May 1944 issue of Ladies Home Journal. Produced by International Pictures and first released through RKO Pictures, the film was made towards the end of World War II and premiered in London on January 18, 1946, a little over four months after its end.

Stubs - The Most Dangerous Game

The Most Dangerous Game (1932) Starring: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Leslie Banks Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel Screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman Based on the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Edward Connell in Collier's (19 Jan 1924). Produced by David O. Selznick (Executive Producer) and Merian C. Cooper (Associate Producer) Run Time: 61 minutes. USA Black and White Adventure

If the undertaking of filming King Kong (1933) wasn’t enough, Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper were also making another movie at the same time, The Most Dangerous Game. Described as the first in a series of adventure and mystery films the two were going to make at RKO, the film is based on the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Edward Connell, which appeared in Collier’s magazine in January 19, 1924. You have no doubt been exposed to the short story at some time during your schooling. The short story has been called the "most popular short story ever written in English” and upon publication, won the O. Henry Award.