The Happy Years
1950 · 110 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 810 VOTES · DIR. William A. Wellman
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 597 lines
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00:01:14 I don't care what anybody says, birthdays are important.
00:03:57 No answer at his place.
00:07:02 All those years of scrimping and saving, I got nothing left
00:08:35 He's a regular criminal entrepreneur, this guy.
00:09:46 And silk. He loves to wear white silk suits with a Panama hat.
00:11:02 Hey, guys!
00:12:17 - I'll run you in. - All right.
00:13:42 making your idiot cop think you have the Midas touch.
00:15:27 Ever hear of a blind trainer, Benny?
00:17:12 A certain cop you may have seen me with earlier who happens to be
00:18:26 so I just had Data feed my cover into the police computers.
00:19:28 And that you're up to your neck in debt.
00:20:27 All right, meet me tonight.
00:22:16 Then when your buyer wants to test the coke
00:24:48 - You... - These blood capsules look pretty real.
00:26:21 - You kill me, MacGyver. - Come on, listen to me.
00:27:37 Pete tells the watch commander he got the money in a bust.
00:29:10 A peace offering, huh?
00:32:04 What's going on, Crowe?
00:33:30 - into the police station with us. - What if we convince him
00:35:25 My plan didn't include you going into the property room, just MacGyver.
00:38:21 Oh, the detective and I are very attached to one another.
00:43:40 Howdy.
400:00:00 you make a million dollars' profit.