The Happy Years

1950
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1h 50min

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Leon Ames, Dean Stockwell, Claudia Barrett, and Margalo Gillmore in The Happy Years (1950)

Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperdink "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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John Humperdink "Dink" Stover es un alumno de la Lawrenceville Prepatory School, en 1896, cuya familia, en Eastcester, Nueva York, está a punto de renunciar a su educación porque es un estud... Leer todoJohn Humperdink "Dink" Stover es un alumno de la Lawrenceville Prepatory School, en 1896, cuya familia, en Eastcester, Nueva York, está a punto de renunciar a su educación porque es un estudiante incorregible.John Humperdink "Dink" Stover es un alumno de la Lawrenceville Prepatory School, en 1896, cuya familia, en Eastcester, Nueva York, está a punto de renunciar a su educación porque es un estudiante incorregible.

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Curiosidades
Filmed (at least in part) on location at the The Lawrenceville School, where the real story takes place. MGM dug up the paved paths around the school to make it look like it did during the time of the story. Most of the school looks the same still today with only a few building added over the last century.

Pifias
Obvious stunt double for Dean Stockwell in the football tryout scene, and when he falls down the stairs near the end of the film.

Citas
The Old Roman: I have in the course of my experience as a teacher had to deal with imbeciles, had to deal with near idiots, but for sheer monumental asininity I have never met the equal of this aggregation.

Conexiones
Edited into The Our Gang Story (1994)

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Excellent and fun

This film is vintage Dean Stockwell as a child actor and is certainly representative of the outstanding performance he invariably produced. The supporting cast is equally as strong. Leon Ames, Leo G. Carroll and Dwayne Hickman are pure delight, and Wellman's direction is spot on as always. The plot is rather rambling, but that really seems only to add to its charm. These are the adventures (and mis-adventures) of some turn-of-the-century prep school boys as remembered by Owen Johnson in his novel THE LAWRENCEVILLE STORIES. The movie is as warm-hearted, funny, and thoroughly engaging as the original book. About 1988 this film was remade as a TV mini-series, using the same title as the book. The complete mini-series was made available about 1992 as a double-cassette VHS recording. But, alas, it seems no one wants to resurrect THE HAPPY YEARS, more's the pity. I, for one, would snap up a copy on either VHS or DVD instantly. Any takers out there, video producers?