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
Not An Easy Kid to deal with
Tomorrow the World was the screen adaption of a Broadway play that ran a season or two previously. It's the story of an American family who adopts a kid over from Nazi Germany. Of course the kid comes over with all the attitudes instilled there from his time in the Hitler Youth. It's going to take a lot of deprogramming to straighten him out.
Skip Homeier repeated his role from the Broadway stage and made an electrifying debut. So much so that he overshadowed grownup stars Fredric March and Betty Field. March is his widower uncle and Betty Field is his fiancé who also is Homeier's teacher in public school.
Of course Homeier doesn't exactly make too many friends spouting all the party line he learned in the Hitler Youth. He's positively horrified to find out that he's going to be mixing with kids of all backgrounds that he's been taught are inferior.
Pretty much everyone gives up on Homeier save Joan Carroll who is March's daughter. Her scenes with Homeier are the best in the film.
Skip Homeier could never escape the typecasting after this movie. Even when he occasionally played good guys there was always an edge to them. No one would ever cast him as a hero. But he did well as a teenager and later as an adult. Fans today probably know him best as the mad leader of a futuristic hippie cult from an original Star Trek episode.
Fredric March might have been a bit miffed at being upstaged by a kid. But he had a second Oscar in his future in his very next film, The Best Years of Our Lives.
I think Father Flanagan in Boys Town would have had a handful dealing with Homeier, might have given his philosophy a quick review or he may have seen his thesis proved about they're being no such thing as a bad boy. It's all in how soon you get to them and whether the life programming patterns have taken root.
Skip Homeier repeated his role from the Broadway stage and made an electrifying debut. So much so that he overshadowed grownup stars Fredric March and Betty Field. March is his widower uncle and Betty Field is his fiancé who also is Homeier's teacher in public school.
Of course Homeier doesn't exactly make too many friends spouting all the party line he learned in the Hitler Youth. He's positively horrified to find out that he's going to be mixing with kids of all backgrounds that he's been taught are inferior.
Pretty much everyone gives up on Homeier save Joan Carroll who is March's daughter. Her scenes with Homeier are the best in the film.
Skip Homeier could never escape the typecasting after this movie. Even when he occasionally played good guys there was always an edge to them. No one would ever cast him as a hero. But he did well as a teenager and later as an adult. Fans today probably know him best as the mad leader of a futuristic hippie cult from an original Star Trek episode.
Fredric March might have been a bit miffed at being upstaged by a kid. But he had a second Oscar in his future in his very next film, The Best Years of Our Lives.
I think Father Flanagan in Boys Town would have had a handful dealing with Homeier, might have given his philosophy a quick review or he may have seen his thesis proved about they're being no such thing as a bad boy. It's all in how soon you get to them and whether the life programming patterns have taken root.
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- Nov 5, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
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