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.
00:06:59 Nothing. I'm broke.
00:08:28 - I found out he killed some people. - I want his name.
00:09:39 What else do you know about this guy?
00:10:52 I want everything you know about bunco scams
00:12:04 - All right, let's go-- - Go! Go!
00:13:25 Yeah.
00:15:03 You picked a fine time to try and get it.
00:16:49 - Hey, I thought we were gonna talk. - I thought I told you 20 minutes.
00:18:02 Oh, that's all wrong for this. The Twist is much better.
00:19:09 This better be good, MacGyver.
00:20:04 Look, you don't wanna buy in, I'll find somebody who will.
00:21:33 - Everything ready? - Yeah, right down here.
00:24:18 What are you doing? You wanna be here when the cops come?
00:25:23 And tomorrow we tell the tale.
00:27:05 I put your money in a suitcase with a false bottom, like this, see?
00:28:05 The Brockman trunk. It's a case Pete was handling.
00:29:39 Pastrami on rye.
00:32:24 She'll be with me. I'm gonna be nearby.
00:34:41 Nothing like it.
00:36:49 But then, you don't remember any of the people
00:39:16 Wait here.
00:43:56 Thanks.