The Happy Years

1950 Rated NR · ⭐ 7.7 · Votes: 3

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.