The Happy Years (1950)
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.
Director:
William A. Wellman
Writer:
Harry Ruskin
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Dean Stockwell as John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover |
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Darryl Hickman as George 'Tough' McCarty |
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Scotty Beckett as 'Tennessee' Shad |
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Leon Ames as Sr. Samuel H. Stover |
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Margalo Gillmore as Maude Stover |
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Leo G. Carroll as Mr. Hopkins |
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Donn Gift as Joshua Montgomery Smead |
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Danny Mummert as "Butsey" White |
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Elinor Donahue as Connie Brown |
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George Chandler as Johnny |
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Irving Bacon as Mr. Conover |
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Arthur Space as Al |
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Leon Tyler as Edward "Puffy" Ellis |
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Claudia Barrett as Dolly Travers |
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Jacqueline deWit as Mrs. Cameron |
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Charles Smith as Student |
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Robert Wagner as Student |
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Peter M. Thompson as Sambo |
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Jerry Mickelsen as Cheyenne Baxter |
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Mason Alan Dinehart as Coffee Colored Angel |
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David Bair as White Mountain Canary |
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Eddie LeRoy as Poler Beekstein |
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Jeralyn Alton as Clara 'Tootsie' Stover (uncredited) |
| Directing | William A. Wellman | Director |
| Production | Carey Wilson | Producer |
| Writing | Harry Ruskin | Screenplay |
| Writing | Owen Johnson | Novel |
| Camera | Paul Vogel | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Walter Plunkett | Costume Design |
| Editing | John D. Dunning | Editor |
| Art | Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
| Art | Edwin B. Willis | Set Decoration |
| Art | Daniel B. Cathcart | Art Direction |
| Sound | Leigh Harline | Original Music Composer |
