Movie Details

Title

The Happy Years

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.

Runtime

1 h 50 min

Release Date

7 July 1950

Actors

Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman, Scotty Beckett, Leon Ames, Margalo Gillmore, Leo G. Carroll, Donn Gift, Donn Gift, Danny Mummert, Elinor Donahue, George Chandler, Irving Bacon, Arthur Space, Leon Tyler, Claudia Barrett, Jacqueline deWit, Charles Smith, Robert Wagner

Certification

G

Genres

Comedy, Romance

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