Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
- chicago
- illinois
- farm
- husband wife relationship
- love triangle
- texas
- marriage
- field
- love
- poverty
- class differences
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Robert J. Wilke — The Farm Foreman
- Jackie Shultis — Linda's Friend
- Stuart Margolin — Mill Foreman
- Timothy Scott — Harvest Hand
- Gene Bell — Dancer
- Doug Kershaw — Fiddler
- Richard Libertini — Vaudeville Leader
- Frenchie Lemond — Vaudeville Wrestler
- Sahbra Markus — Vaudeville Dancer
- Bob Wilson — Accountant
- Muriel Jolliffe — Headmistress
- Directed
- Terrence Malick
- Written
- Terrence Malick
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 1,202 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, O.P. Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
