cult film freak: STEVE COCHRAN & RUTH ROMAN IN 'TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY'

Steve Cochran in TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY Year: 1951 Rating: **1/2

While it's not strange having swarthy and handsome, experienced tough guy Steve Cochran playing an ex con who, in this case is fresh out of prison after a very long stretch since he was a teenager, it's extremely rare him being an awkwardly naive dolt falling hard for a woman instead of being fallen for...

But this is a Film Noir where almost every man, tough or otherwise, winds up putty to a beautiful dame... in this case a worldly Ruth Roman who, after accidentally killing an abusive boyfriend cop, convinces Cochran's Bill Clark into thinking he's the killer instead...

Steve Cochran and Ruth Roman in TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY

And for a melodrama the booming score fits but becomes a too noisy and intrusive for dialogue with little action... while the best scenes have the couple on the road after a quick off-screen wedding...

But the honeymoon doesn't last long enough for TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY to merit the potential thrills that the on-the-run plot promises: instead bordering on soap opera territory where Cochran needed his usual alpha charisma, while Roman's femme fatale lacks the seductive prowess for the poor guy to become such a complete sap for, and so quickly.