Today We Live

1933

Today We Live

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Movie Info

This drama, set during WWI, centers on a pleasure-seeking British girl who is romantically involved with her brother's naval buddy. She then sees and falls for an American pilot. When the pilot is listed as dead, the girl returns to the sailor. However, the flyer didn't actually die.

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Action & Adventure, Drama, Romance
Directed By:

Howard Hawks
Written By:

Edith Fitzgerald, Dwight Taylor, William Faulkner
In Theaters:

Apr 14, 1933 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Nov 10, 1993
Runtime:

113 minutes
Studio:

MGM

Cast

Joan Crawford
as Diana

Gary Cooper
as Bogard

Robert Young
as Claude

Franchot Tone
as Ronnie

Roscoe Karns
as McGinnis

Louise Closser Hale
as Applegate

Rollo Lloyd
as Major

Hilda Vaughn
as Eleanor

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Critic Reviews for Today We Live

All Critics (3) | Top Critics (1)

Aided by some beautiful writing and excellent acting, the picture will probably go down as one of the best directed in many a day; particularly in love scenes and the hair-raising scenes of battle, both in the air and on the water.

Apr 14, 2018 | Full Review…

Hollywood Reporter
Top Critic
Lacking even a journalistic, contemporary quality, Today We Live is a flimsy business.

Jun 13, 2019 | Full Review…

Pare Lorentz
Vanity Fair
A stilted WWI love triangle story set in England.

Sep 18, 2013 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
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Audience Reviews for Today We Live

Sep 22, 2013

Ponderous, miscast slog of a film. The performers try their best but only Cooper's character is believable. Crawford, Young and Tone are all supposed to be British born, none speak in anything but refined American accents. Their parts should have been played by Diana Wynyard, Ronald Coleman and Leslie Howard. The film would probably still have been a bore but at least it would have felt grounded in some kind of reality.

jay n Super Reviewer
Jun 03, 2009

Despite being made by the infamous Hawks, written by Faulkner, and starring some great legends in the likes of Crawford, Cooper, Young, etc., this movie is as frustrating to watch as putting together a puzzle that you know is missing pieces. The fault mainly lies in the editing, as the running time was cut from 135 min. We are left watching scenes take place that we don't understand why it's happening. The dialogue, as the film, is somewhat staccato in its delivery. This film would have succeeded more as a war film and left off the added romantic triangle.

nefnie l Super Reviewer