The Happy Years
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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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23 people
Dean Stockwell
John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover
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Darryl Hickman
George 'Tough' McCarty
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Scotty Beckett
'Tennessee' Shad
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Battleground
Leon Ames
Sr. Samuel H. Stover
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Mister Ed
Meet Me in St. Louis
Margalo Gillmore
Maude Stover
Known for
High Society
The Trouble with Angels
Leo G. Carroll
Mr. Hopkins
Known for
North by Northwest
Strangers on a Train
Donn Gift
Joshua Montgomery Smead
Known for
The Yearling
Danny Mummert
"Butsey" White
Known for
The Sniper
Elinor Donahue
Connie Brown
Known for
Pretty Woman
Eek! The Cat
George Chandler
Johnny
Known for
Every Which Way but Loose
Fury
Irving Bacon
Mr. Conover
Known for
Shadow of a Doubt
A Star Is Born
Arthur Space
Al
Known for
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William A. Wellman Director · Harry Ruskin Screenplay Owen Johnson Author
Worldwide gross $855K · Budget $1.4M · United States release July 7, 1950
Box office
Budget
$1,393,000
Worldwide gross
$855,000
Gross vs. budget
0.6×
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · July 7, 1950
Theatrical
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