Tomorrow 6/12

(1972) Based on a short story by William Faulkner. In depression-era Mississippi, a reclusive watchman finds a homeless pregnant woman near the mill he's tending, and is determined to nurse her back to health.

Though not a feel-good movie, "Tomorrow" is one of the best American films. Duvall cites it as his favorite role, and many Faulkner fans consider this the most faithful dramatization of his work.

Robert Duvall - Jackson Fentry
Olga Bellin - Sarah Eubanks
Sudie Bond - Mrs. Hulie
Richard McConnell - Isham Russell
Peter Masterson - Lawyer Douglas
William Hawley - Papa Fentry
James Franks - Preacher Whitehead
Johnny Mask - Jackson & Longstreet
Effie Green - Storekeeper
Ken Lindley - Judge
R.M. Weaver - Jury Foreman
Dick Dougherty - Buck Thorpe
Jeff Williams - H.T. Bookwright
Jack Simley - Thorpe Brother
Billy Summerford - Thorpe Brother

NOTE: The dialogue in this film is vernacular from the Mississippi Delta region.

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Tags:

• Robert Duvall
• Olga Bellin
• Horton Foote
• Mississippi
• Depression
• abandoned woman
• mill watchman
• cotton farmer
• pregnant woman
• Jackson Fentry
• Mississipi Delta
• Faulkner

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His longer-than-expected absence restarts her abandonment fears. Made all the worse by her newly raised--and risked--hopes of having someone who's truly loyal. So beautiful that when he returns, she can't directly express affection and release--so she pets the mule instead. That mule is great stand-in for Fentry's mule-like reliability. He's stubbornly caring. He intuits part of her refusal to marry him is her fear of being abandoned again--so he asks her again. Noble needs, put so subtly.

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How she reaches out to stitch together his tatters, after she's shared her own through-all-the-tatters dream of a Home. Her hand lingering on his shoulder. She knows he's thinking of wanting to marry her, and of her rejection of him. So he turns his back to cope with the hurt of loyalty offered, tenderness returned, but marriage denied. Her pausing look to see if he'll still follow their path. Her lonely, worried waiting, fearing he'll now leave her, too. Stoic eloquence.