MORE ABOUT THE MOVIE: A poor young lad finds his life changed when he leaves the streets of New York City to become an English lord.
Freddie Bartholomew plays Cedric Errol, a poor Brooklyn boy destined for greatness in this film based on the lovable story by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Although Ceddie doesn't know it, his deceased father was an English nobleman. When it becomes apparent that Ceddie is heir to an English title and an immense fortune, his mother (Dolores Costello Barrymore) takes him back to England, where they discover that her father-in-law despises Americans. To win his birthright, Ceddie must struggle against false claims to his title as well as his grandfather?s cantankerous disposition. Director John Cromwell considered this movie his finest film; with a graceful script by novelist Hugh Walpole, an excellent supporting cast, a buoyant sense of humor, and a gem of a performance from Bartholomew, he may well have been right.