Tomorrow We Live – 1942 | 85 mins | War | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Stiff propaganda drama about freedom fighters in occupied France during the WWII,produced by the British Aviation Pictures ‘with the official co-operation of General de Gaulle’. The nominal male stars of the film, John Clements and Godrey Tearle are extremely wooden, and outshone by the good performances of Greta Gynt, Judy Kelley and Yvonne Arnaud.

Whilst the Germans scour a French town for saboteurs, the Mayor (Godfrey Tearle) and his daughter Marie (Greta Gynt) collaborate with the German Occupation. But unknown to both the Germans and the French villagers, they are not traitors but leaders of the French resistance organisation. When young French idealist Jean Baptiste (John Clements) arrives from Saint-Nazaire without papers, Marie shields him from the Germans and enlists him in their cause to disrupt the German war effort and smuggle Allied airmen back to England. Angered at the resistance’s continued attempts to disrupt their supply lines, the Germans arrest fifty hostages and threaten to execute them.