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Today We Live

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Movie Info

Ann (Joan Crawford), a young British aristocrat, bids farewell to her brother, Ronnie (Franchot Tone), and neighbor, Claude (Robert Young), who are both about to join England's naval forces in World War I. Claude has proposed to Ann, and she agreed to get married when he returns. However, an American, Richard (Gary Cooper), soon arrives, having bought her estate. Ann and Richard, who has also enlisted to be a pilot, quickly fall in love, but she still wants to keep her promise to Claude.

Genre:

war
Original Language:

English
Director:

Howard Hawks
Producer:

Howard Hawks
Writer:

Edith Fitzgerald, Dwight Taylor
Release Date (Streaming):

Sep 1, 2009
Runtime:

1h 50m
Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Cast & Crew

Joan Crawford
Diana

Gary Cooper
Bogard

Franchot Tone
Ronnie

Louise Closser Hale
Applegate

Rollo Lloyd
Major

Hilda Vaughn
Eleanor

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Critic Reviews for Today We Live

All Critics (5) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (4)

As a drama of the war it is not precisely convincing, for coincidences play an important part in its arrangement. It is also anachronistic.

April 20, 2020 | Full Review…

Mordaunt Hall
New York Times
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.

April 14, 2018 | Full Review…

Hollywood Reporter
A stilted WWI love triangle story set in England.

April 20, 2020 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Lacking even a journalistic, contemporary quality, Today We Live is a flimsy business.

June 14, 2019 | Full Review…

Pare Lorentz
Vanity Fair
A star cast, a great director, and William Faulkner's original story fail to raise this above an ordinary triangle love story set against WW I.

September 18, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

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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