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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.
general audience, movie lovers
england, ohio, game, scholar
United States of America
asHugh Aylesworth
asAnnie
asTom Sanders
asMrs. Mary Andrews
asMr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)
asDon Andrews
asBetty (as Ann Todd)
asMrs. Aylesworth
asDick
asMessenger
asBBC Broadcast Announcer
asFlip
asSchoolgirl (uncredited)
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