On the Sunny Side

Overview

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.

Details

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)