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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Charles Coburn | ... | Alexander Gow | |
| Tom Drake | ... | Robert Shannon as a Young Man | |
| Beverly Tyler | ... | Alison Keith as a Young Woman | |
| Hume Cronyn | ... | Papa Leckie | |
| Gladys Cooper | ... | Grandma Leckie | |
| Dean Stockwell | ... | Robert Shannon as a Child | |
| Selena Royle | ... | Mama Leckie | |
| Jessica Tandy | ... | Kate Leckie | |
| Richard Haydn | ... | Jason Reid | |
| Andy Clyde | ... | Saddler Boag | |
| Norman Lloyd | ... | Adam Leckie | |
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Robert North | ... | Murdoch Leckie |
| Wallace Ford | ... | Jamie Nigg | |
| Eilene Janssen | ... | Alison Keith as a Child | |
| Henry H. Daniels Jr. | ... | Gavin Blair as Young Man (as Hank Daniels) | |
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When young Robert Shannon is orphaned he leaves his home in Ireland and travels to Langford, Scotland, home of his maternal grandparents. Growing up in the home of his penny-pinching grandfather is made bearable by his doting but irresponsible great-grandfather, loving grandmother and kind aunt and uncle. After a rocky start in his new school Robbie adjusts and is befriended by Gavin and Allison, whom he grows to love as the years pass. As he matures into a young man Robbie's dreams turn to medicine and becoming a doctor. Supported by everyone in the family except his grandfather, he studies for a scholarship as a way to escape life toiling in the local boiler-works. Written by Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
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Country:
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4 July 1946 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A.J. Cronin's The Green Years See more »Filming Locations:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USAEdit
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$2,280,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Harold S. Bucquet began directing the film but became seriously ill and was replaced by Victor Saville. Bucquet died shortly after he left. See more »Quotes
Alison Keith as a Young Woman: If a man have not friends at a time like this, then what are friends for?See more »
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Featured in Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949) See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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A.J. Cronin's "The Green Years" has been splendidly brought to the screen thanks mainly by the performances of that grand old stager Charles Coburn, and that wonderful child star Dean Stockwell (what a pity he ever had to grow up!) Their scenes together are something very special even today. Coburn was nominated for best supporting actor, which was unfair, as he is clearly the star and should have had the nomination of Best Actor. As a young Cathoic lad thrown into a family of Scottish Protestants, Stockwell is quite amazing. The supporting cast of Gladys Cooper, Hume Cronyn ( a little over the top), Jessica Tandy and Richard Haydn are very very good, while Tom Drake is the best he ever was in a movie. The atmosphere of the era and the village is brilliantly captured by Director Victor Saville.