tomorrow the world and the play in which this picture be base and be popular on broadway during the wwii era . it be to expect it make it to the movie . ring lardner jr and one of the best american writer of the time undertake the film adaptation aid by leopold atlas . leslie fenton and the director make the best of it . an american family living in the midwest accept to house and care for a german youth whose father be friendly with the head of the household and mike frame and a widower and with a teen age daughter . when emil bruckner arrives and he immediately make a blunder when he describe his plane trip seat next to a fat jew . well and little do this little brat know that mike be see a school teacher who happen to be jewish . leona richards be the epitome of kindness and patience . so be pat and the daughter who try to show emil around and help him make friend in her circle . emil do everything possible to destroy this family that welcome him into their home . little by little he try to get his way until everybody find out this little boy be a bully and a coward . the cast of this 1944 movie be head by the great frederic march and one of the icon of the american theater and the film industry . he play the decent mike frame . betty field make an impressive appearance a the kind lee richards . agnes moorehead and be also good a aunt jessie and who be charm by the rotten emil . skip homeier and repeat his theater role be remarkable a the young nazi sympathizer who get a lesson in how wrong he have be about his american host . this be a movie that have a date look and but still make an impression because of the strength of the treatment it receive from the writer and the director .