On the Sunny Side (1942)
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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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Roddy McDowallHugh Aylesworth
Jane DarwellAnnie
Stanley ClementsTom Sanders
Katharine AlexanderMrs. Mary Andrews
Donald DouglasMr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)
Freddie MercerDon Andrews
Ann E. ToddBetty (as Ann Todd)Jill EsmondMrs. AylesworthFred WalburnDick
William BenedictMessengerStuart RobertsonBBC Broadcast Announcer
Leon TylerFlipKeywords
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What is On the Sunny Side about?
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.
How long is On the Sunny Side?
On the Sunny Side has a runtime of 69 minutes.