On the Sunny Side

1h 9min

Drama

War

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.

Cast

Roddy McDowall

Roddy McDowall

Hugh Aylesworth
Stanley Clements

Stanley Clements

Tom Sanders
Katharine Alexander

Katharine Alexander

Mrs. Mary Andrews
Donald Douglas

Donald Douglas

Mr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)
Freddie Mercer

Freddie Mercer

Don Andrews
Ann E. Todd

Ann E. Todd

Betty (as Ann Todd)
Jill Esmond

Jill Esmond

Mrs. Aylesworth
Stuart Robertson

Stuart Robertson

BBC Broadcast Announcer
Terry Moore

Terry Moore

Schoolgirl (uncredited)

Release date

13th Feb 1942

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English