Here I Am a Stranger is a 1939 American drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and written by Sam Hellman and Milton Sperling.

Anxiously sitting by the crib of her year-old son David, Clara hears a knock and a voice threatening to return "with a dispossess notice and a cop".

As she starts packing a suitcase, her drunken husband Duke Allen comes home with a bouquet and a birthday rattle for David.

R. J. himself, a wealthy businessman who employs Paulding, arrives late and immediately starts discussing business before giving David an expensive watch as a birthday and going-away-to-college present.

They pass by the house of English professor Daniels and run into his beautiful daughter Simpson who has auto oil on her face while repairing her car.

In the meantime, David finds a scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the social pages, indicating that his Duke has kept track of his son's progress.

Duke is vague about his current employment, but invites David to join him in watching a college football game on Saturday.

During the dance, David apologizes to Simpson about Lillian's remarks, while Lester and another collegian trick tee-totaling Sortwell into drinking alcohol by telling him that it is simply punch.

David and Simpson go outside and when she makes self-deprecating remarks and unpins her hair, he tells her, "you're really wonderful", but as he moves to kiss her, she says, "can you imagine it, I'm shy".

David arrives and, upon assuring them that he did not call the police, is pressured by Bennett and Evans that he should allow Sortwell to take the blame and save the family from an "unpleasant experience".

Upon hearing that, Bennett says, "Evans, call the chief of police on the phone, tell him Lester's giving himself up... make it sound good... the boy's conscience bothers him... he doesn't want the other kid to take the blame for him... it'll swing public sympathy our way..." Clara then goes to her husband's office and tells David that she made all the sacrifices for him and now it's his turn to be grateful.

Sortwell is honking from his laundry truck, ready to take David to the train station, as he hugs and kisses Simpson who goes to her father's study and cries on his shoulder.