The Happy Years
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Director William A. Wellman Duration Costume design Walter Plunkett | 7/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Romance, Sport Running time 1h 50m Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1950 Genres Comedy, Romance Film, Sports Cast (John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover), ('Tough' McCarty), ('Tennessee' Shad), (Sr. Samuel H. Stover), Margalo Gillmore (Maude Stover)Similar movies Related William A Wellman movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Happy Years is a 1950 film based on The Varmint by Owen Johnson. It concerns the adventures of Dink Stover, a boy attending the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey.
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The happy years 1950 movie review
Plot
Expelled from other preparatory schools, most recently after causing a campus explosion, "Dink" Stover is given one last chance by his father to find maturity along with a proper education. On the way to a new academy, Dink promptly disrupts the trip of a fellow carriage passenger, Mr. Hopkins, by causing the horse to break into a gallop. He is unaware that Hopkins is his school's headmaster.
Dink becomes acquainted with other students like Tough McCarty and Tennessee Shad and immediately begins getting into fights. The rivalry spills onto a football field and also includes cruel pranks played on a girl at school, Connie Brown. On the verge of being kicked out of yet another school, Dink comes to his senses just in time, making his father proud at last.
Cast
Robert Wagner made his film debut in a small role as Adams, the cleaves catcher.
Reception
According to MGM records the movie earned $680,000 in the US and Canada and $175,000 elsewhere, making a loss to the studio of $1,096,000.
References
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