There's Always Tomorrow
First screened in December 2024

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Director: Douglas Sirk. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Bennett, William Reynolds, Gigi Perreau, Judy Nugent, Pat Crowley, Jane Darwell, Helen Kleeb. Screenplay: Bernard C. Schoenfeld (based on a story by Ursula Parrott).

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Photo © 1956 Universal Pictures

In Brief: Sirk still excels at ambivalent, desirous adults and dim, dead-weight kids, even in his second-tier films.

VOR: ④  Sirk takes monochrome back out for a spin after pivoting into Technicolor melodramas. Embodies and undermines 50s domestic mythologies.

Grade: B+

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