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Content Advisory: Violence, Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1972 DVD Release: 05/04/2004 Format: DVD - Black and White,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 43 mins Studio: Homevision Members Wishing: 6 Genres: Drama, Courtroom Drama

Horton Foote was the adapting hand behind this superlative black and white filmization of the 1939 William Faulkner story -Tomorrow. Framed in flashback, the film explores the personal reasons that semi-literate farmer Robert Duvall is the lone jury holdout in the guilty verdict for a young killer on trial. We learn in a gradually unfolding fashion that the boy is the son of Olga Bellin, a woman with whom Duvall had had an intense personal involvement some twenty years earlier. Foote's script had previously been utilized on a Playhouse 90 TV version of Tomorrow, which starred Sterling Hayden. Universally regarded as the best-ever film adaptation of a Faulkner work, Tomorrow was in danger of vanishing without truly finding its audience, when it was given a well received TV premiere on PBS on December 17, 1984--twelve years after the film was made. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Olga Bellin - Sarah Eubanks
Robert Duvall - Jackson Fentry
James Franks - Preacher Whitehead
Johnny Mask - Boy

Scripted by Horton Foote and starring Robert Duvall, the William Faulkner adaptation Tomorrow comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital mono. There are neither subtitles nor closed-captions on this release. Supplemental materials include interviews with Foote and Duvall, liner notes, the original theatrical trailer, and the Faulkner short story on which this film is based. This is a fine release from Home Vision. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide