
The Happy Years
- PASSED
- Year:
- 1950
- 110 min
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Mr. Stover.
This little story
about your son.
I gave you the facts
and told you
to write it honestly.
But this isn't the way
i wrote it, sir.
Please listen.
"John h. Stover, younger
"last night left for miss
wandell's select academy
"for young ladies
and gentlemen.
"John was last monday
expelled
"from the public schools
of chester county
by unanimous vote
of the school board."
That's the way
i rewrote what you wrote.
Bert, mrs. Stover and i
are ashamed and humiliated.
We wish it could have been hushed up,
but everybody would
find out,
and i don't want
them saying
i kept it out
of the papers
because it was
my own son.
Bert:
Hello.Oh, yes.
Mrs. Stover
calling you, sir.
Hello, maude.
Samuel, come home
right away.
It's mrs. Cameron.
She's going to
put john in prison.
All right, maude.
I'll come at once.
Samuel stover, your son has robbed me
of a blue ribbon in
next week's horse show.
Please, mrs. Cameron,
if someone has been
surreptitiously riding
any of your prize horses-
my beautiful, white,
five-gaited gelding bucephalus.
Well, what's the matter
with b-b-bucephalus?
Look.
Well, why do you suspect
john of this?
The jones hardware store will tell you
that yesterday
at 3:
30,john purchased two
quarts of green paint,
which he charged
to my account.
Bert:
Hello.Oh, yes.
Mr. Stover, your little
girl is on the phone.
Hello, tootsie.
I love you, darling,
but i'm awfully busy
right now, so you-
but mom wants you.
Hurry.
John's been expelled
from miss wandell's academy,
and sambo's come home
from yale about it.
Hello, sambo.
What is it, and how did the
news reach yale university?
There was an explosion
at the academy,
and it blew out
the sides of the building,
and it could have
killed everybody.
The police say
that john did it.
Sambo:
I brought him home.
Dad, we'll never have a moment's peace
unless you do
something drastic
about that young
heathen right now.
In the last two years, we've
lost half our friends and...
well-
oh, no, samuel.
Not reform school, please.
Why not
reform school?
Of course, there is one
private school i know of,
a school with a fine
tradition among its students
that manages to turn pretty
nearly any young heathen
into a good christian.
It did
when i went there.
Lawrenceville, dad?
Oh, no.
I won't stand
for that.
Lawrenceville has
a fine curriculum,
an understanding
faculty-
we went all through that a year ago.
I've got a reputation at lawrenceville.
Maude, what do you say?
Sam, your father means
what he says
about reform school.
All right.
Lawrenceville...
but i'll bet
the faculty
won't let him stay there long enough
for the splendid tradition
to do him any good.
That we'll find out.
Bring john here.
This isn't
your fault, dear.
Maybe i've failed
with john.
You've had
the patience of job.
Well, if lawrenceville doesn't work,
i'll have
job's boils, too.
Samuel:
Great godfrey, maude!Look at that child's
clothes.
And all the money
i spent on him.
Samuel stover, 5 minutes
after he puts on a new suit,
it looks like something out of a ragbag.
This isn't
a new suit.
This is the coat
of one suit
and the pants
of another.
The other coat and pants
were burnt in the explosion.
Did you deliberately
set off that explosion
and blow out the wall
of the academy building?
It could have happened
to anybody.
What could have
happened to anybody?
One of the boys
in chemistry class
said you couldn't
make dynamite
without using
special machinery.
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