The Happy Years
| The Happy Years | |
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| Directed by | William Wellman |
| Written by | Harry Ruskin |
| Based on | The Varmint: A Lawrenceville Story by
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| Produced by | Carey Wilson |
| Starring | Dean Stockwell Darryl Hickman Scotty Beckett Leon Ames Margalo Gillmore |
| Cinematography | Paul C. Vogel |
| Edited by | John Dunning |
| Music by | Leigh Harline |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 109-110 mins |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,393,000 |
| Box office | $855,000 |
The Happy Years is a 1950 Technicolor MGM film starring Dean Stockwell and based on the 1910 novel The Varmint by Owen Johnson. It concerns the adventures of Dink Stover, a boy attending the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey.