Toomorrow (1970)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Val Guest

Writer:

Val Guest (writer)

Release Date:

27 August 1970 (UK)

Genre:

Music | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

Launch out on a musical cosmic trip with the new "Tomorrow"

Plot:

Dying aliens kidnap the group Toomorrow who's "vibrations" are needed for their race to survive. |

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Performance | Outer Space | Instrument | Student

Cast

Olivia Newton-John	...	Olivia
Benny Thomas	...	Benny
Vic Cooper	...	Vic
Karl Chambers	...	Karl
Roy Dotrice	...	John Williams
Imogen Hassall	...	Amy
Tracey Crisp	...	Suzanne Gilmore
Margaret Nolan	...	Johnson
Roy Marsden	...	Alpha
Carl Rigg	...	Matthew
Maria O'Brien	...	Françoise
Stuart Henry	...	Compere
Kubi Chaza	...	Sylvana
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Norman Chappell	...	Stage Door Keeper

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Lowndes Productions Limited

Trivia:

The basis for this film is "The Gang" (1967), an unreleased movie.

Goofs:

Factual errors: After the Professor is shown cutting the power to the group's instruments at their (live) lunchtime jam session, instead of their music cutting off altogether it slows down to a stop as if on a record.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Harry Saltzman: Showman (2000) (V)

Harmless, corny fluff.

Although admittedly a higher quality picture than I had expected it would be, "Toomorrow" is hopelessly dated and rather short on ideas (in fact, the ideas that are present are pretty weak)

Olivia Newton-John is lovely here, not yet having made her mark in music or films, as the one female member of a young and very ambitious music band called "Toomorrow" (oooh, groovy!) Their happening tunes are picked up by an alien race, desperate for "new audio vibes". The aliens' mission- to "kidnap" the band, and take them back to their home planet in order to learn the secrets of their unique "vibrations".

Chock full of twee-as-all-hell musical interludes, "Toomorrow" was clearly designed to create media hype around the fictitious band of the title (hmmm....I assume Miss Newton-John is not displeased that this marketing project failed)

Neither especially interesting nor entirely entertaining, "Toomorrow" is still watchable from a hindsight of nearly four decades as a curio...a film of it's time that nostalgia fans will find amusing, and with some decidedly decent special effects.

4.5/10