German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
Skip Homeier
- Emil Bruckner
- (as Skippy Homeier)
Steve Brown
- Ray - Boy Scout
- (as Boots Brown)
Freddie Chapman
- Undetermined Role
- (unconfirmed)
- (uncredited)
Marvin Davis
- Dennis Butler
- (uncredited)
Tom Fadden
- Mr. Clyde - Mailman
- (uncredited)
Ralph Lee
- Undetermined Role
- (unconfirmed)
- (uncredited)
Mary MacLaren
- Woman on Sidewalk
- (uncredited)
Frances Norris
- Undetermined Role
- (unconfirmed)
- (uncredited)
Patsy Anne Thompson
- Millie
- (uncredited)
Ruth Warren
- Undetermined Role
- (unconfirmed)
- (uncredited)
Sonny Boy Williams
- Undetermined Role
- (unconfirmed)
- (uncredited)
Rudy Wissler
- Stan Dumbrowski - Paperboy
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 14 April 1943 and closed 17 June 1944 after 500 performances. The opening night cast included Skip Homeier as Emil and Edit Angold as Frieda (each of whom later reprised their stage roles for the film), Ralph Bellamy as Mike Frame, Shirley Booth as Leona Richards and Kathryn Givney as Jessie Frame. Producer Lester Cowan bought the rights to the play for $75,000 plus 25% of the gross, not to exceed $350,000. He wanted to change the title of the movie to "The Intruder," but a poll of exhibitors voted him down.
- GoofsWhen Emil appears in his Nazi uniform, the shirt and pants are those of the Hitler Youth (which is appropriate for someone his age). However, the armband is not that of the Hitler Youth (alternating red and white bands with a swastika inside a white diamond), but that of a regular party member (solid red background with a swastika in a white circle). He would not have been eligible for full party membership - and the party armband - until his 18th birthday.
- Quotes
Mike Frame: Jesse, you're my sister and I adore you; but, have you ever given five minutes thought to what's going on in the world?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)
Featured review
German brat learns a lesson in kindness, American style
"Tomorrow the World", the play in which this picture is based, was popular on Broadway during the WWII era. It was to expect it made it to the movies. Ring Lardner Jr, one of the best American writers of the time undertook the film adaptation aided by Leopold Atlas. Leslie Fenton, the director made the best of it.
An American family living in the midwest accept to house and care for a German youth whose father was friendly with the head of the household, Mike Frame, a widower, with a teen age daughter.
When Emil Bruckner arrives, he immediately makes a blunder when he describes his plane trip seated next to a fat Jew. Well, little does this little brat know that Mike is seeing a school teacher who happens to be Jewish. Leona Richards is the epitome of kindness and patience. So is Pat, the daughter who tries to show Emil around and help him make friends in her circle. Emil does everything possible to destroy this family that welcomed him into their home. Little by little he tries to get his way until everybody finds out this little boy is a bully and a coward.
The cast of this 1944 movie is headed by the great Frederic March, one of the icons of the American theater and the film industry. He plays the decent Mike Frame. Betty Field makes an impressive appearance as the kind Lee Richards. Agnes Moorehead, is also good as Aunt Jessie, who is charmed by the rotten Emil. Skip Homeier, repeating his theater role is remarkable as the young Nazi sympathizer who gets a lesson in how wrong he has been about his American hosts.
This is a movie that has a dated look, but still makes an impression because of the strength of the treatment it received from the writers and the director.
An American family living in the midwest accept to house and care for a German youth whose father was friendly with the head of the household, Mike Frame, a widower, with a teen age daughter.
When Emil Bruckner arrives, he immediately makes a blunder when he describes his plane trip seated next to a fat Jew. Well, little does this little brat know that Mike is seeing a school teacher who happens to be Jewish. Leona Richards is the epitome of kindness and patience. So is Pat, the daughter who tries to show Emil around and help him make friends in her circle. Emil does everything possible to destroy this family that welcomed him into their home. Little by little he tries to get his way until everybody finds out this little boy is a bully and a coward.
The cast of this 1944 movie is headed by the great Frederic March, one of the icons of the American theater and the film industry. He plays the decent Mike Frame. Betty Field makes an impressive appearance as the kind Lee Richards. Agnes Moorehead, is also good as Aunt Jessie, who is charmed by the rotten Emil. Skip Homeier, repeating his theater role is remarkable as the young Nazi sympathizer who gets a lesson in how wrong he has been about his American hosts.
This is a movie that has a dated look, but still makes an impression because of the strength of the treatment it received from the writers and the director.
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- jotix100
- Feb 5, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
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