Tomorrow We Live

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

The Production Team

Director: George King.
Producer: S.W. Smith.
Script: Anatole de Grunwald and Katherine Strueby. (based on a story by Dorothy Hope)
Cinematography: Otto Heller.
Film Editing: Winifred Cooper and Terence Fisher.
Art Direction: Norman G. Arnold.
Sound Department: Ernest A. Royls and Cecil Thornton.
Original Music: Nicholas Brodszky, Roy Douglas and James Turner.
Music Direction: Muir Mathieson.

The Cast

John Clements - Jean Baptiste
Godfrey Tearle - Mayor Pierre DuSchen
Hugh Sinclair - Maj. von Kleist
Greta Gynt - Marie DuSchen
Judy Kelley - Germaine Bertan
Yvonne Arnaud - Mme. L. Labouche
Karel Stepanek - Seitz
Bransby Williams - Matthieu
Fritz Wendhausen - Cmndt. Frissette
Allan Jeayes - Pogo
John Salew - Marcel LaBlanc
Herbert Lom - Kurtz

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.