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The Happy Years (1950)
Directed by William A. Wellman
Overview
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink “Dink” Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his ‘hatred of women’ because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
Rated NR | Length 110 minutes
Actors
Dean Stockwell | Darryl Hickman | Scotty Beckett | Leon Ames | Margalo Gillmore | Leo G. Carroll | Donn Gift | Danny Mummert | Elinor Donahue | George Chandler | Irving Bacon | Arthur Space | Leon Tyler | Claudia Barrett | Jacqueline deWit | Charles Smith | Robert Wagner | Peter M. Thompson | Jerry Mickelsen | Mason Alan Dinehart | David Bair | Eddie LeRoy | Jeralyn Alton