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ADDITION: Indicator Blu-ray (June 2024): Indicator have transferred George King's Tomorrow We Live to Blu-ray. It is cited as being from a "New restoration from a 4K scan by Powerhouse Films". The 1080P is consistent, clean with decent contrast. It is quite bright and has some texture. It looked very pleasing on my system. I had no strong issues with the HD presnetation. 

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On their Blu-ray, Indicator use a linear PCM mono track (16-bit) in the original English language. Tomorrow We Live has few aggressive moments - ex. a blown-up train, some rife fire, shooting innocent hostages, RAF bombing etc.. The score was by Nicholas Brodszky (While the Sun Shines, A Man About the House, L'inconnu d'un soir,) and uncredited orchestration by Roy Douglas (Far into the Night) - who claims "I had actually composed entire film score" - and James Turner (Candlelight in Algeria.) Frequently played and sung is a tune; oh Jean Baptiste Pourquoi that there is no reference for and, in the conclusion we get some of the cast singing "La Marseillaise". The audio can show its age a bit but dialogue was certainly discernable. Indicator offer optional English (SDH) subtitles on their Region FREE Blu-ray.

The Indicator Blu-ray offers a new commentary by film historians Josephine Botting (Adrian Brunel and British Cinema of the 1920s: The Artist versus the Moneybags) and Robert Murphy (The British Cinema Book.) They discuss director George King, much of the cast - Hugh Sinclair, Greta Gynt, Judy Kelly, Yvonne Arnaud, Bransby Williams, British war films, the film's theme of "who can you trust?", the original story author Dorothy Hope, who the wife of the executive producer of the film, John Stafford, as well as information on Anatole de Grunwald - the Russian British film producer and screenwriter, cinematographer Otto Heller, critical reaction to Tomorrow We Live - and much more. There is a lot of information imparted with this commentary - I'm always impressed with Jo's breadth of knowledge. You can also watch the film while simultaneously listening to a BEHP interview with Roy Douglas from 2005 running shy of 40-minutes. It is an archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring composer Douglas in conversation with Alex Gibson. Turning Heads is new and spends 20-minutes with film historian Pamela Hutchinson (30-Second Cinema: The 50 most important ideas, genres, and people in the history of movie-making, each explained in half a minute) discussing the life and career of famed Norwegian actor Greta Gynt (The Dark Eyes of London.) Lastly are an image gallery of promotional and publicity materials and the package has a limited edition exclusive 40-page booklet with a new essay by Philip Kemp (Cinema The Whole Story), archival interviews and articles, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits.    

George King's 1943 Tomorrow We Live should not to be confused with the same-titled desert-based 1942 Edgar G. Ulmer crime-drama with Ricardo Cortez and Jean Parker. King also directed The Shop at Sly Corner, on recently reviewed Indicator Blu-ray covered HERE. Tomorrow We Live has varied degrees of 'resistance' in a Nazi-occupied French village, "St Pierre-le-Port". It focuses on the atrocious behavior enforced on the characters and their own personal means of existence around it from extensive sabotage to collaboration. So, it's a bit of a morale-boosting, flag waving, propaganda effort. There is some interesting interplay with the female characters played by Greta Gynt (The Dark Eyes of London,) Australian-born Judy Kelly (Dead of Night) and Gabrielle Brune (The Titfield Thunderbolt) who exist by their wits, flirtations and varying degrees of mercenary compromises. The film's leanings are amusingly transparent; bumbling German soldiers replaced by the ruthless SS and the nobility of the French commoners as they croon "La Marseillaise" sauntering defiantly to the firing squad; "Against us from the tyranny, the bloody banner is raised..." Vive la France! The Indicator Blu-ray is at their exceptionally high standard for the a/v, commentary, and other supplements including a booklet. Recommended to those keen.

Gary Tooze