Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

This Sometimes Charming Movie is Almost Ruined by the Bombastic, Over the Top Irritations by Jack Oakie. He is Insufferable Most of the Time and is Saved Only by the Beauty of Linda Darnell, Dick Powell's Engaging Performance, and a Good Story.It's Been Done Quite Often, this "knowing the future will do you no good" Plot in Countless Books, TV Shows, and Movies, but it is Almost Always Intriguing. Just What Would You Do? Of Course, Those Lottery Numbers and Race Results are Surely Going to Bring in Lots of Cash Quickly and Just as Quickly...POOF!.Overall, the Movie is Worth a Watch because it is Lively, Funny At Times, and Well Done. But Only if You Can Stand the Buffoonery and Over Ripe Slapstick and Yelling of One Jack Oakie.

A newspaper reporter gets a copy of the next day's paper from a mysterious old man, leading to complications and hilarity (not). It's an intriguing premise for both sci-fi and comedy, but this film fails to deliver on either front. The script is uninspired and the pacing is uneven. Even the narrative structure is problematic; the hero's life is endangered but there's no suspense because he's relating the story in a flashback. Powell tries hard to breathe some life into it, but it rarely rises above the level of mild amusement. Darnell is little more than a pretty face here. One good thing is that it wraps up in less than 90 minutes.

Larry Stevens (Dick Powell) is a reporter who is mysteriously given the following day's newspapers by Pop Benson (John Philliber). At the same time, he begins to date Sylvia (Linda Darnell) who works as part of a stage act with Cigolini (Jack Oakie). Larry and Sylvia turn up to events that are yet to happen. What happens when Larry reads about his own death....?..The film has a good story and Dick Powell is funny as the reporter who knows it all. There are some funny scenes, eg, at the racetrack where he predicts all the winners, and when he is resigned to his own death and just has to accept it. Jack Oakie can be generally irritating but he is not so bad in this film. The cast all do well and the film is a slice of fun with a couple of twists at the end.

Dick Powell gets himself in a trouble with tomorrow's newspaper in "It Happened Tomorrow," a 1944 film also starring Linda Darnell and Jack Oakie. Powell plays Larry Stevens, an ambitious reporter who is given the next day's newspaper by an old man, Pop Benson, who works at the paper. Benson, and Powell have a discussion about knowing the news in advance, and Pop shows up the next day with an advanced newspaper issue showing what is going to happen. Larry is able to write a robbery story in advance and have it ready to go as soon as the event occurs, which puts him under suspicion with the police. Then he reads about his own death.Interesting premise that will sound familiar to those who watched the TV series "Early Edition." The beautiful Linda Darnell, Stevens' love interest, plays half of a mind-reading act, the other half being her uncle (Jack Oakie).Rene Clair was an odd duck who was attracted to this type of story. It isn't paced well, but Powell's performance manages to hold the thing together.The film begins with a couple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, and the husband wanting to tell the guests a story of something that happened to him. You won't have any trouble figuring out who they are.The plot sounds serious, but it's delivered with a light touch.