The Happy Years

    The Happy Years
    1950

    Synopsis

    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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    Cast

    • Dean StockwellJohn Humperdink 'Dink' Stover
    • Darryl HickmanGeorge 'Tough' McCarty
    • Scotty Beckett'Tennessee' Shad
    • Leon AmesSr. Samuel H. Stover
    • Margalo GillmoreMaude Stover
    • Leo G. CarrollMr. Hopkins
    • Donn GiftJoshua Montgomery Smead
    • Danny Mummert"Butsey" White
    • Elinor DonahueConnie Brown
    • George ChandlerJohnny

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