Not Rated
1950    1h 50mComedy, Romance
6.767%7.5
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperdink "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.
Directed by William A. Wellman

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  • Dean StockwellJohn Humperdink 'Dink' Stover
  • Darryl HickmanGeorge 'Tough' McCarty
  • Scotty Beckett'Tennessee' Shad
  • Leon AmesSr. Samuel H. Stover
  • Margalo GillmoreMaude Stover
  • Leo G. CarrollMr. Hopkins
  • Donn GiftJoshua Montgomery Smead
  • Danny Mummert"Butsey" White
  • Elinor DonahueConnie Brown
  • George ChandlerJohnny
  • Irving BaconMr. Conover
  • Arthur SpaceAl
  • Leon TylerEdward "Puffy" Ellis
  • Claudia BarrettDolly Travers
  • Jacqueline deWitMrs. Cameron
  • Charles SmithStudent
  • Robert WagnerStudent
  • Peter M. ThompsonSambo
  • Jerry MickelsenCheyenne Baxter
  • Mason Alan DinehartCoffee Colored Angel
  • Mister ArnMay 22, 2025
    The movie is well-made, except that it takes place over two years, and the protagonist is a child. He doesn't change, and I found it unsettling. There are many warm fuzzies if you can identify with a rich preppy kid coming of age at the turn of the century.

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