
On the Sunny Side
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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Cast

Roddy McDowall
Hugh Aylesworth

Jane Darwell
Annie

Stanley Clements
Tom Sanders

Katharine Alexander
Mrs. Mary Andrews

Donald Douglas
Mr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)

Freddie Mercer
Don Andrews

Ann E. Todd
Betty (as Ann Todd)
Jill Esmond
Mrs. Aylesworth
Fred Walburn
Dick

William Benedict
Messenger
Stuart Robertson
BBC Broadcast Announcer

Leon Tyler
Flip

Terry Moore
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Writers: Lillie Hayward, Mary C. McCall, Jr., George TempletonMusic: Leigh Harline
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