On the Sunny Side

On the Sunny Side — Plot

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.

• Release date
• February 13, 1942
• Runtime
• 69 min
• Genres
• Drama, War
• Director
• Harold D. Schuster

On the Sunny Side — Cast

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)

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Jill Esmond Mrs. Aylesworth