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.

Cast:

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