Happy Land

Happy Land

🎞️ Movie 73 min US
โ˜… 6.7 /10 1943

A great story of two people who found themselves only after they thought they lost all!

In a typical American Midwestern city, Hartfield, Iowa, Lew Marsh (Don Ameche) is the owner of a drugstore. Everyone knows Lew and knew his grandfather, old "Gramp" Marsh (Harry Carey), who had passed on. One evening, Lew and his wife, Agnes (Frances Dee), reminisce lovingly about their son, "Rusty" (Richard Crane), when a telegram arrive from the Navy Department informing them that "Rusty" had been killed in action. Lew becomes bitter, avoids people, refuses to go near the family drugstore. "Gramp" appears before Lew and takes him in hand and together, they revisit the past: Lew's childhood; "Gramp" as a Civil War veteran; Lew's courtship of Agnes; the birth of "Rusty"; Lew as a WW! soldier; Rusty's boyhood days and into his attempt to decide between Lenore Prentiss and Gretchen Barry, and how Lenore becomes his bride just before he joins the Navy. This excursion into the past takes away Lew's bitterness and he now sees what America means.

Cast

Don Ameche
Don Ameche
Lew Marsh
Frances Dee
Frances Dee
Agnes Marsh
Harry Carey
Harry Carey
Gramp
Ann Rutherford
Ann Rutherford
Lenore Prentiss
Cara Williams
Cara Williams
Gretchen Barry
Richard Crane
Richard Crane
Russell 'Rusty' Marsh
Harry Morgan
Harry Morgan
Anton 'Tony' Cavrek
Minor Watson
Minor Watson
Judge Colvin
Dickie Moore
Dickie Moore
Peter Orcutt
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June Preston
Mrs. Prentiss daughter
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Cyril J. Mockridge
Composer
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Joseph LaShelle
Cinematographer