at the Caper" - 2:01 "Johnny Ingram's Possessions" - 1:08 "The Carousel Incident" - 1:44 "Skating in Central Park" - 3:29 "No Happiness for Slater" - 3:56 "Main Theme: Odds Against Tomorrow" - 3:24 "Games" - 2:17 "Social Call" - 3:53 "The Impractical Man - 3:00 Advance on Melton"- 1:58 "Waiting Around the River" - 3:51 "Distractions" - 1:25 "The Caper Failure" - 1:23 "Postlude" - 0:45 Personnel John Lewis - arrange, conducto Bernie Glow, Joe Wilder, John Ware, Melvyn Broiles - trumpet John Clark, Tom McIntosh - trombone Al Richman, Gunther Schuller, Paul Ingram, Ray Alonge - French horn Harvey Phillips - tuba Robert DiDomenica - flute Harvey Shapiro, Joseph Tekula - cello Ruth Berman - harp Milt Jackson - vibraphone Bill Evans - piano Jim Hall - guitar Percy Heath - bass Connie Kay - drums] Richard Horowitz - timpani Walter Rosenberger - percussion Reception Critical response The film has an 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Bosley Crowther of the New York Times described Wise's direction as "tight and strong" and the film as a "sharp, hard, suspenseful melodrama," with a "sheer dramatic build-up...of an artistic caliber that is rarely achieved on the screen." Time magazine wrote: The tension builds well to the climax—thanks partly to Director Robert Wise (I Want to Live!), partly to an able Negro scriptwriter named John O. Killens, but mostly to Actor Ryan, a menace who can look bullets and smile sulphuric acid. But the tension is released too soon—and much too trickily. The spectator is left with a feeling that is aptly expressed in the final frame of the film, when the camera focuses on a street sign that reads: STOP—DEAD END. Variety wrote: "On one level, Odds against Tomorrow is a taut crime melodrama. On another, it is an allegory about racism, greed and man's propensity for self-destruction. Not altogether successful in the second category, it still succeeds on its first." Forty years after the film's release, critic Stephen Holden called it "sadly overlooked." Awards The film was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Motion Picture Promoting International Understanding. Books A book of the screenplay titled Odds Against Tomorrow: A Critical Edition () was published in 1999 by the Center for Telecommunication Studies, sponsored by the Radio-Television-Film department at California State University, Northridge. The book includes the film's complete script, blending the shooting and continuity scripts, and a critical analysis