It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow is a 1944 American fantasy film directed by Ren Clair, starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell and Jack Oakie, and featuring Edgar Kennedy and John Philliber.

Stevens gets another newspaper from Pop Benson, against Pops advice, intending to use it to pick winning horses at the racetrack, getting enough money to afford to get married. Unfortunately, he also reads a story about his own death that night, so he and Sylvia get married immediately, and head off to the track with her uncle. Stevens bets on winner after winner, amassing 60,000, which is then stolen on their way back to town. They give chase, but are arrested for speeding.Stevens tries his best to avoid the hotel lobby where his death is supposed to take place, but circumstances keep pushing him in that direction. He spots the man who stole his money, and chases him on foot through the streets and over the rooftops, until they both fall through the chimney which leads to the very hotel lobby hes been trying to avoid. A gunfight breaks out, and the thief is shot and killed. Because he has Stevens wallet on him, he is at first identified as the newspaperman, and his newspaper prints an erroneous story saying that their star reporter has been killed. When a reporter finds out the truth, the newspaper has already hit the streets, and it is this edition that Pop had given him. ........

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