Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 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.
The story
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early twentieth century. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.
- hotel
- time travel
- playwright
- photograph
- portrait
- pocket watch
- 1980s
- 1910s
- stage actress
- single man
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Christopher Reeve
Richard Collier
Jane Seymour
Elise McKenna
Christopher Plummer
William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
Teresa Wright
Laura Roberts
- Bill Erwin — Arthur Biehl
- George Voskovec — Dr. Gerald Finney
- Susan French — Older Elise
- John Alvin — Arthur's Father
- Eddra Gale — Genevieve
- Audrey Bennett — Richard's Date [1972]
- William H. Macy — Critic [1972]
- Laurence Coven — Critic [1972]
- Susan Bugg — Penelope [1972]
- Christy Michaels — Beverly [1972]
- Ali Marie Matheson — Student [1972]
- Directed
- Jeannot Szwarc
- Written
- Richard Matheson
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 685 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Rastar Productions, Stephen Deutsch 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.
