Tomorrow

Region B

Toomorrow (Blu-ray)
Director: Val Guest

London-based pop group Toomorrow, fronted by Olivia (Olivia Newton-John), 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/Special features

• 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, 61 mins) 
• Val Guest on Toomorrow (1988, 10 mins): an extract from an interview recorded by the British Entertainment History Project 
• 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 
• Chimpmates: Alice Goes Pop (1976, 15 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 
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