Tomorrow is not forever — at least not for the Blu-ray of the 1946 wartime romance that starred Orson Welles and Claudette Colbert.
ClassicFlix has opted not to renew its licensing deal with MGM, meaning Tomorrow is Forever and nine other MGM titles will be discontinued on Blu-ray later this year.
Tomorrow is Forever made its Blu-ray debut in 2017. The much-lauded ClassicFlix release boasted such extras as an audio commentary track by film score restorationist Ray Faiola of Chelsea Rialto Studios, an isolated music track and image gallery. Prior the ClassicFlix release, Tomorrow is Forever was available as a manufactured-on-demand DVD-R from the MGM Limited Edition Collection for six years.
In Tomorrow is Forever, Elizabeth MacDonald (Colbert) learns that her husband, John Andrew (Welles), has been killed in World War I. Elizabeth bears John’s son and eventually marries her boss . Unknown to her, Andrew has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son’s request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad with his adopted an eight-year old daughter (Natalie Wood).
Wellesians can scoop up the remaining Blu-ray copies of director Irving Pichel’s tearjerker while they last at classicflix.com/products/copy-of-tomorrow-is-forever. (The $29.99 list price has already been discounted.)
According to a spokesman for ClassicFlix, the nine other MGM titles soon to be out-of-print are Along Came Jones, Casanova Brown, Crime of Passion, Down Three Dark Streets, Five Steps to Danger, The Killer is Loose, He Walked by Night, It’s About Time and The Noose Hangs High.
The label will also discontinue its John Alton Collection as it contains He Walked by Night.
ClassicFlix recently released a restored version of the 1949 costume drama Black Magic (Cagliostro) starring Welles on DVD and Blu-ray.
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