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On the Sunny Side
On the Sunny Side
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On the Sunny Side

1942
1h 9m
Drama
War

Status

Released

Release

1942

Runtime

1h 9m

Storyline

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.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 9m
Feb 13, 1942
Languages
English
Director
Harold D. Schuster
Production
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox
Production Countries
United States of America

Top Cast

13 Cast Members

Roddy McDowall

Roddy McDowall

Hugh Aylesworth

Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell

Annie

Stanley Clements

Stanley Clements

Tom Sanders

Katharine Alexander

Katharine Alexander

Mrs. Mary Andrews

Donald Douglas

Donald Douglas

Mr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)

Freddie Mercer

Freddie Mercer

Don Andrews

Ann E. Todd

Ann E. Todd

Betty (as Ann Todd)

Jill Esmond

Mrs. Aylesworth

Fred Walburn

Dick

William Benedict

William Benedict

Messenger

Stuart Robertson

BBC Broadcast Announcer

Leon Tyler

Leon Tyler

Flip

Terry Moore

Terry Moore

Schoolgirl (uncredited)

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