The Happy Years
1950 · 1h 50m · PASSED
Comedy, Romance
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.
Director and cast
- William A. Wellman Director
- Dean Stockwell as John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover
- Darryl Hickman as 'Tough' McCarty
- Scotty Beckett as 'Tennessee' Shad
- Leon Ames as Sr. Samuel H. Stover
- Margalo Gillmore as Maude Stover
- Leo G. Carroll as Mr. Hopkins
- Donn Gift as Joshua Montgomery Smead
- Danny Mummert as "Butsey" White
- Elinor Donahue as Connie Brown
- George Chandler Cast
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