On the Sunny Side

On the Sunny Side

1942 · 69 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama, War

Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.

Directed by Harold D. Schuster · Written by Mary C. McCall, Jr.

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Roddy McDowall Hugh Aylesworth
Jane Darwell Annie
Stanley Clements Tom Sanders
Katharine Alexander Mrs. Mary Andrews
Donald Douglas Mr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)
Freddie Mercer Don Andrews
Ann E. Todd Betty (as Ann Todd)
Jill Esmond Mrs. Aylesworth
Fred Walburn Dick
William Benedict Messenger
Stuart Robertson BBC Broadcast Announcer
Leon Tyler Flip

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