#toomorrow

[brummie-man-interests]

I just don't understand you women. You don't behave like men. TOOMORROW [1970]

[galax-sea]

[originalharmonysalad]

TOOMORROW trailer (2026 restoration)

TOOMORROW, 1970, Screenbound Int’l, 94 min. 21 year-old Olivia Newton-John stars, pre-GREASE fame, in this utterly bonkers Mod-Pop / Sci-Fi musical about a multi-racial group of London art college musicians whose songs are the cure to the computer sterility suffered by the alien Alphoids, circling Earth in their crystal spacecraft.

“Sure, I dig it. We’re too much. We’re Toomorrow.”

[cinemaquiles]

O curioso caso do filme que ninguém viu por 4 décadas: "Toomorrow", 1970

[balsanja]

[toneburst]

случайно наткнулся на воображаемую группу Toomorrow, через непонятный трек на никому неизвестном сборнике Lost Jukebox Volume 059 Girl Group Sound и всё оказалось не так-то просто

Toomorrow (1970) : A group of students pay their way through school by forming a pop band called Toomorrow; sonic vibrations from a special instrument called a "tonaliser" cause an extraterrestrial to abduct the group, and have them entertain the Alphoid population.

студенты создали группу Toomorrow (с Olivia Newton-John), чтобы заработанными деньгами оплатить учёбу, их необычный инструмент «tonaliser» привлёк внимание инопланетного разума (приветики 🛸🖖👽), в результате студентов похитили инопланетяне, чтобы те развлекали Alphoid population, конец

и этот прекрасный фильм никто не видел, из-за бесконечных судебных споров по поводу оплаты труда реж и сценариста, со стороны банкрота-продюсера (который имел отношение к запуску бондиады, кстати), опус снимали два года, и когда он вышел, реж. добился судебного запрета на прокат, т.к. ему не заплатили, в итоге фильм несколько десятилетий пролежал на полке (интересно, «How to Talk to Girls at Parties» где тоже максимальный бредор и музыка с инопланетянами +Эль Фаннинг и Николь Кидман, не этим ли шедевром навеян)

здесь отметилась и Margaret Nolan из Goldfinger '64 [где её красили золотом], а Olivia Newton-John вскоре станет всемирно популярной, благодаря фильму Grease '78 [In 1978 she starred in the musical film Grease, whose soundtrack remains one of the most successful in history and features two major hit duets with co-star John Travolta: "You're the One That I Want" – which ranks as one of the best-selling singles of all time – and "Summer Nights"]

Toomorrow was to be the first space musical. The basic plot was there was a galactic shortage of sound and these aliens send an emissary to Earth to locate the type of sound that contains certain vibrations they lack up there. The aliens pick on a group of poor struggling musicians mainly, I think, because one of them has a home made synthesiser. So these kids get transported up into a spacecraft to teach the galactic people how to make this sound. Anyway, I think that was the plot, but working with Harry was similar to my experience with producer Charlie Feldman on Casino Royale (1966).

It became a vast project and Harry spent a lot of money on it, about eight or nine million dollars altogether. He was never satisfied, he was always wanting to redo a scene or rebuild a set in a different way. He went into partnership with Don Kirshner, who was known as Mister Music in America, but Don, halfway through the film, backed out because he couldn’t get on with Harry. Eventually the film was finished and it was delivered over to Rank Distributors, who opened it at the London Palladium cinema.

It only ran for two weeks because I put an injunction on it and they had to take it off. The reason I did that was because I hadn’t been paid. And I haven’t been paid to this day, even though I later won a High Court case against the company that had made it, Sweet Music. So the film has never been shown at all since then, anywhere.

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Toomorrow is the soundtrack from the 1970 film, featuring the band Toomorrow with Australian singer Olivia Newton-John (her first major release album). The film was a sci-fi musical mix directed by Val Guest and was Newton-John's second movie.

Toomorrow are: Olivia Newton-John (vocals), Karl Chambers (drums), Ben Thomas (guitar, vocals) Vic Cooper (organ, piano, saxophone, guitar, recorder)

https://open.spotify.com/album/4dOjUoel1Ad3sYnlWSDwQ2

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From the YT description

"TOOMORROW, 1970, Screenbound Int’l, 94 min. 21 year-old Olivia Newton-John stars, pre-GREASE fame, in this utterly bonkers Mod-Pop / Sci-Fi musical about a multi-racial group of London art college musicians whose songs are the cure to the computer sterility suffered by the alien Alphoids, circling Earth in their crystal spacecraft. "It's the only thing Planet Earth can teach us: the vibrations of Youth," as the androgynous Alphoids, led by veteran British actor Roy Dotrice, tell Olivia & band. A jaw dropping, must-be-seen-to-be-believed combination of “Josie & The Pussy Cats” and THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, the film is filled with super-groovy Sunshine Pop tunes, student protests and carefree sexual hijinks -- plus aliens. (The Alphoids’ glimmering ship is like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude on ecstasy, one of the film’s highlights.)"

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Olivia Newton-John Toomorrow 1970