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The Happy Years (1950)

NR ★ 7.5/10 110 min Comedy, Romance United States English
Screenplay by: Harry Ruskin
Novel: Owen Johnson
Streaming: Not available

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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.

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Dean Stockwell
Dean Stockwell John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover
Darryl Hickman
Darryl Hickman George 'Tough' McCarty
Scotty Beckett
Scotty Beckett 'Tennessee' Shad
Leon Ames
Leon Ames Sr. Samuel H. Stover
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore Maude Stover
Leo G. Carroll
Leo G. Carroll Mr. Hopkins
Donn Gift
Donn Gift Joshua Montgomery Smead
Danny Mummert "Butsey" White

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