On the Sunny Side (1942)

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Country: USA
Genres: Drama, War
Release: 1942-02-13
Director: Harold D. Schuster
Writers: Lillie Hayward , George Templeton , Mary C. McCall Jr.
Language: English
Stars: Roddy McDowall (1928–1998) , Jane Darwell (1879–1967) , Stanley Clements , Katharine Alexander , Donald Douglas , Freddie Mercer , Ann E. Todd , Jill Esmond , Fred Walburn , Leon Tyler
Runtime: 69 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Fraternity (United States of America) , O Pequeno Refugiado (Brazil) , Aún brilla el sol (Mexico) , On the Sunny Side (United States of America) , Little Yankee Doodle (United States of America) , On the Sunny Side (United Kingdom) , 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.
IMDB:tt0035150