Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) is a film noir directed by Gordon Douglas based on the novel by Horace McCoy. The film was banned in Ohio as "a sordid, sadistic presentation of brutality and an extreme presentation of crime with explicit steps in commission."
Supporting Cagney are Luther Adler as a crooked lawyer, Ward Bond and Barton MacLane as two crooked cops, and Cagney's brother William (who produced the film) as Ralph Cotter's brother.
Dustin Yarma is a Los Angeles film executive whom awakens on a beach after a night of drunken debauchery to a dead body of a young woman he was with the night before. Minnow, a beach bum/derelict, approaches Dustin and offers to dispose of the body only if Dustin will finally support him. With little choice and knowing his life will be damaged in a public Hollywood scandal, Dustin accepts Minnow's offer. Soon, Minnow has moved into Dustin's posh house, and socialized with more of Dustin's friends, including his girlfriend Darcy. Written by Matt Patay
From the trial of the survivors, we flash back to amoral crook Ralph Cotter's violent prison break, assisted by Holiday Carleton, sister of another prisoner...who doesn't make it. Soon Ralph manipulates the grieving Holiday into his arms, and two crooked cops follow her into his pocket. Ralph's total lack of scruple brings him great success in a series of robberies. But his easy conquest of gullible heiress Margaret Dobson proves more dangerous to him than any crime... Written by Rod Crawford
At their collective trial the accused, who include corrupt prison and police officers, think back to their disastrous association with a vicious killer from the time of his break from jail. Written by Jeremy Perkins
