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The Happy Years (1950)

The Happy Years (1950)

Comedy Romance
Release Date: 1950, July 7
Directors: William A. Wellman
Countries: United States of America
Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast: Dean Stockwell, Irving Bacon, Danny Mummert, Elinor Donahue, David Bair, Robert Wagner, Leo G. Carroll, Darryl Hickman, Leon Ames, George Chandler, Scotty Beckett, Arthur Space

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book 19th century preparatory school boys' school naughty