Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
William A. Wellman
Director

Dean Stockwell
John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover

Darryl Hickman
George 'Tough' McCarty

Scotty Beckett
'Tennessee' Shad

Leon Ames
Sr. Samuel H. Stover

Margalo Gillmore
Maude Stover

Leo G. Carroll
Mr. Hopkins

Donn Gift
Joshua Montgomery Smead
Danny Mummert
"Butsey" White

Elinor Donahue
Connie Brown
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