Toomorrow (1970)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1970
Running Times: 95 mins
Format: Technicolor     35mm
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Lowndes Productions Limited
Producers: Don Kirshner, Harry Saltzman
Associate Editor: John Palmer

SCRIPT
Script: Val Guest

DIRECTION
Director: Val Guest
Assistant Director: John Stoneman

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Dick Bush

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Alan Osbiston

MUSIC
Music: Hugo Montenegro

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Gordon K. McCallum

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Ronald Paterson

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Directors: Ernest Archer, Bert Davey

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 (Sam Apple Pie)
Lynda Westover

PLOT SUMMARY

A group of penniless students form a pop group to earn some extra money. They invent a "tonalizer" - a primitive synthesizer - which attracts the attention of the alien Alphoids whose culture is stagnating due to their soulless electronic music. Hoping to bring about universal harmony, the Alphoids abduct the band and take them back to their homeworld.

Long suppressed, this "missing" Val Guest offering turns out to be an entirely awful science fiction musical, with dreadful musical sequences that surely looked out of date even in 1970. The band Toomorrow - not to be confused with the excellent Keith West / Steve Howe psychedelic icons Tomorrow - are appalling and one must wonder about alien tastes in music if they believe this caterwauling would bring peace to the universe. One "lost" film that probably deserves to remain that way.

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Rank Film Organization

UK
Rating: PG

1970
August
27: UK – theatrical release

2000
July
8: USA - shown at the Mods and Rockers festival, Los Angeles

Launch out on a musical cosmic trip with the new Tomorrow

KEYWORDS

aliens, musicians, spaceships, students, ufos

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008