The Happy Years
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.
Release date
07/07/1950
Votes
4
Popularity
1.2
Dean Stockwell
John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover
Darryl Hickman
George 'Tough' McCarty
Scotty Beckett
'Tennessee' Shad
Leon Ames
Sr. Samuel H. Stover
Margalo Gillmore
Maude Stover
Leo G. Carroll
Mr. Hopkins
Donn Gift
Joshua Montgomery Smead
Danny Mummert
"Butsey" White
Elinor Donahue
Connie Brown
George Chandler
Johnny
Irving Bacon
Mr. Conover
Arthur Space
Al
Leon Tyler
Edward "Puffy" Ellis
Claudia Barrett
Dolly Travers
Jacqueline deWit
Mrs. Cameron
Charles Smith
Student
Robert Wagner
Student
Peter M. Thompson
Sambo
Jerry Mickelsen
Cheyenne Baxter
Mason Alan Dinehart
Coffee Colored Angel
David Bair
White Mountain Canary
Eddie LeRoy
Poler Beekstein
Jeralyn Alton
Clara 'Tootsie' Stover (uncredited)
Original Soundtrack
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Manhattan
Amour Fou
Party Monster
Royal-ish
Equator
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
It Stopped Raining
Meet the Robinsons
Jules and Jim
La Chinoise
Fried Green Tomatoes
Anna and the King
Little Children
The Virgin Suicides
Here the Whole Time
I Am Burning!
The Piano Teacher
The Rules of Attraction
My French Amore