About the film
- Directed by
- Val Guest
- Released
- August 27, 1970
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Starring
- Olivia Newton-John, Benny Thomas, Vic Cooper, Karl Chambers, Roy Dotrice
More credits
- Language
- English
- Origin
- US, GB
- Studios
- Lowndes Productions Limited
- Written by
- Val Guest
- Produced by
- Harry Saltzman, Don Kirshner
- Cinematography
- Dick Bush
- Music
- Hugo Montenegro
- Also starring
- Imogen Hassall, Tracey Crisp, Margaret Nolan, Roy Marsden, Carl Rigg
The man behind The Monkees teamed up with a James Bond producer to build the next pop sensation. An unknown named Olivia Newton-John would front the project. The band would launch with a self-titled movie.
TOOMORROW (1970) was directed by Val Guest, the Hammer veteran behind The Quatermass Xperiment. It was co-produced by James Bond producer Harry Saltzman and music producer Don Kirschner.
In the film, the band are London students playing to pay their way through college. Their keyboardist has built a synthesizer he calls the tonaliser, and its sound reaches the Alphoids, a dying alien race who decide only these vibrations can save their civilization. The aliens abduct the band and make them play.
It lasted about a week in cinemas before Guest, unpaid, got an injunction against it. Kirschner is said to have loathed Toomorrow so much that he refused to let anyone screen it for the rest of his life.
A lawsuit sealed it away for more than forty years, and until a recent restoration, almost no one had seen twenty-one-year-old Olivia Newton-John's first starring role.
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Jeez, it can’t be any worse than Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room.” Cough that baby up!
You shut your filthy mouth. 🤣
It had one legal home video release, a laserdisc from Japan and it was the source for every bootleg tape and DVD.
Bill Treadway not true, it had a legit anamorphic widescreen UK DVD release from Screenbound a few years ago. I have it, and it’s definitely not ripped from a laserdisc.
Jeffrey Nelson Yes, back before recent time, it sounds like up until “now”, whenever that recent now is.
Jeffrey Nelson I had no idea there was a legal UK DVD. I wish the bootleg I had seen used that as its source instead of that muddy laserdisc with Japanese subtitles all the way through it.
Someone send this to Shout Factory or the folks at Rifftrax. This needs to be a live event
When I read “The man behind the Monkees,” I assumed you were talking about Bob Raefelson.
Saw this on YouTube a few years ago. It is dire.
So what I’m hearing is, that it’s so bad that he sued so that no one had to be subjected to it ?
It’s no XANADU! WAIT! Is that good or bad?
Going by the above movie Stills it looks like a very odd movie.
I saw it when it was in the cinema!
Wait…so the one pictured here was a REMAKE?!? 😳🤯