Tomorrow the World (1944)
Synopsis of Tomorrow the World
14-year-old Skip Homeier repeats his stage role as an unreconstructed Hitler Jugend in the film version of the James Gow/Arnaud D'Usseau stage play Tomorrow the World. A German orphan, Homeier is taken into the home of his American uncle (Fredric March), a gently liberal university professor. Though the son of an anti-Nazi, little robot-like Skip has become a parrot for the Third Reich, denouncing his late father as a traitor and being as nasty as possible to the professor's Jewish fiancee (Betty Field). Homeier accepts democracy only when the professor forgets his fuzzy-headedness and applies a little "physical culture." The moral really shouldn't be "Love America or We'll Break Every Bone in Your Body," but given the times in which it was made, Tomorrow the World can be forgiven its excesses. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 82 mins
Complete Cast of Tomorrow the World
- Fredric March - Mike Frame
- Agnes Moorehead - Jessie
- Joan Carroll - Pat Frame
- Boots Brown - Roy
- Marvin Davis - Dennis
- Tom Fadden - Mailman
- Betty Field - Leona Richards
- Skip Homeier - Emil Bruckner
- Edith Angold - Frieda
- Rudy Wissler - Stan
- Mary Newton - School Principal
- Patsy Ann Thompson - Millie
- Director(s):
- Leslie Fenton
- Writer(s):
- Leopold Atlas, Ring Lardner, Jr.
- Producer(s):
- Lester Cowan
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