A Ship Comes In

The Pleznik family from Hungary arrives in New York -- after landing at Ellis Island, the parents, Peter (Rudolph Schildkraut) and Louise (Louise Dresser), and their three children settle on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and, with with help from a nice policeman, find their way to the home of an old friend. Peter Pleznik and his family are happy to be in America, but they soon cross paths with an malcontent named Sokol (Fritz Feld), who warns them that they will never find happiness in America, and rails against the government. But Peter Pleznik won't hear anything of it -- he even takes the presence of a roach in his apartment as a memory of home from Hungary; and, a talented trombonist he, he strikes up a friendship with a more amateur player from across the airshaft, and they join in a duet of "Yankee Doodle Dandy." (jakelijan virallinen teksti)