Details
Toomorrow Blu-Ray (US Import)
BFI
Original title: Toomorrow
Year: 1970
Country: UK
Region code: A
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5035673015698
Image: 2.39:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio: English - LPCM 2.0 Mono
Subtitles: English SDH
Age rating: 15
Genre: Science Fiction / Musical
Cast: Olivia Newton-John, Roy Dotrice, Benny Thomas
Director: Val Guest
Synopsis:
London-based pop group Toomorrow, fronted by Olivia (Olivia Newton-John), are abducted by aliens to save their race from extinction in this rarely seen sci-fi musical.
The group are attempting to pay their way through college with their music. Unbeknownst to them, the sonic vibrations from their ‘tonaliser’ have been picked up by the Alphoid Galactic Control and identified as the only solution to saving the Alphoids from extinction.
This science fiction musical comedy directed by Val Guest and produced by Don Kirshner (musical producer of The Monkees) and Harry Saltzman (James Bond) was shelved after one week in cinemas due to a lawsuit and was impossible to watch by the public for decades. The film is presented here having been newly scanned and restored.
Extras:
- Newly remastered by Deaf Crocodile and the BFI and presented in High Definition
- New audio commentary by author and music historian Andrew Sandoval
- Toomorrow: Musical Humanism Through the Stars (2026, 12 mins) new visual essay by film critic Celeste de la Cabra
- The Guardian Lecture: Val Guest (1998, 60 mins)
- The British Entertainment History Project: Val Guest (1988, 10 mins): In this excerpt from a career-spanning audio interview with Val Guest, informally recorded on cassette in 1988, the director recalls the challenging circumstances that surrounded the production of Toomorrow
- Tomorrow Night in London (1969, 5 mins)
- The Nose Has It! (1942, 8 mins): cheeky comic Arthur Askey advocates safe sneezing into a handkerchief to stop the spread of germs in this short film directed by Val Guest
- If I Could Turn You On (1969, 13 mins): a stark experimental film documenting an avant-garde performance at the Camden Roundhouse, one of the locations used in Toomorrow
- Chimp-Mates: Alice Goes Pop! (1975, 17 mins): a group of kids form a band....with a chimp on drums no less, in this kitsch short from the Children’s Film Foundation
- **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet featuring new writing on the film by Matthew Hild, on Val Guest by the BFI’s Dr Josephine Botting and an essay by Jay Rathbone on manufactured pop groups
