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On the Sunny Side

On the Sunny Side (1942)

1h 9m | PG-13

⭐ 6 / 10

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.

Director: Harold D. Schuster

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Genre: Drama, War

Video: 720p

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Cast

Roddy McDowall

Roddy McDowall

as Hugh Aylesworth

Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell

as Annie

Stanley Clements

Stanley Clements

as Tom Sanders

Katharine Alexander

Katharine Alexander

as Mrs. Mary Andrews

Donald Douglas

Donald Douglas

as Mr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)

Freddie Mercer

Freddie Mercer

as Don Andrews