Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.
Directed by Harold D. Schuster
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Cast
Roddy McDowall
Hugh Aylesworth
Jane Darwell
Annie
Stanley Clements
Tom Sanders
Katharine Alexander
Mrs. Mary Andrews
Donald Douglas
Mr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)
Freddie Mercer
Don Andrews
Ann E. Todd
Betty (as Ann Todd)
Jill Esmond
Mrs. Aylesworth
Fred Walburn
Dick
William Benedict
Messenger
Stuart Robertson
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Leon Tyler
Flip
Terry Moore
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
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