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.
Roddy McDowall
as Hugh Aylesworth
Jane Darwell
as Annie
Stanley Clements
as Tom Sanders
Katharine Alexander
as Mrs. Mary Andrews
Donald Douglas
as Mr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)
Freddie Mercer
as Don Andrews
Ann E. Todd
as Betty (as Ann Todd)
Jill Esmond
as Mrs. Aylesworth
Fred Walburn
as Dick
William Benedict
as Messenger
Stuart Robertson
as BBC Broadcast Announcer
Leon Tyler
as Flip
