On the Sunny Side (1942)
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.
- Date of release
- 1942-02-13
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 9m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Harold D. Schuster
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
On the Sunny Side is a 1942 United States home front during World War II film, directed by Harold Schuster, starring Roddy McDowall, Jane Darwell, Stanley Clements, Katharine Alexander, Don Douglas, Freddie Mercer, Ann Todd and Jill Esmond. The screenplay is suggested by "Fraternity", a short story by Mary C. McCall, Jr., published in the February 1, 1941 issue of Collier's magazine.
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