The Happy Years (1950)
110 min
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.
- Release date
- July 7, 1950
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Dean Stockwell as John Humperdink Stover
- Darryl Hickman as Tough McCarty
- Scotty Beckett as Tennessee Shad
- Leon Ames as Samuel H. Stover, Sr.
- Margalo Gillmore as Mrs. Stover
- Leo G. Carroll as The Old Roman
- Donn Gift as The Big Man
- Peter M. Thompson as Sambo
- Jerry Mickelsen as Cheyenne Baxter
- Mason Alan Dinehart as Coffee Colored Angel
Crew
- William A. Wellman · Director
- Owen Johnson · Writer
- Harry Ruskin · Writer
- Carey Wilson · Producer
- Leigh Harline · Composer
- Paul Vogel · Cinematographer
- John D. Dunning · Editor