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On the Sunny Side

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1942•1h 9m

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.

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Photo of Roddy McDowall

Roddy McDowall

Hugh Aylesworth

Photo of Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell

Annie

Photo of Stanley Clements

Stanley Clements

Tom Sanders

Photo of Katharine Alexander

Katharine Alexander

Mrs. Mary Andrews

Photo of Donald Douglas

Donald Douglas

Mr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)

Photo of Freddie Mercer

Freddie Mercer

Don Andrews

Photo of Ann E. Todd

Ann E. Todd

Betty (as Ann Todd)

Photo of William Benedict

William Benedict

Messenger

Photo of Leon Tyler

Leon Tyler

Flip

Photo of Terry Moore

Terry Moore

Schoolgirl (uncredited)

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