On the Sunny Side

The story

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 & crew

Roddy McDowallHugh Aylesworth

Jane DarwellAnnie

Stanley ClementsTom Sanders

Katharine AlexanderMrs. Mary Andrews

Donald DouglasMr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)

Freddie MercerDon Andrews

Ann E. ToddBetty (as Ann Todd)

Jill Esmond

Jill EsmondMrs. Aylesworth

Fred Walburn

Fred WalburnDick

William BenedictMessenger

Stuart Robertson

Stuart RobertsonBBC Broadcast Announcer

Leon TylerFlip