The Green Years
It's the Book with a Heartful of Love that Thrilled Millions!
1946 | 127m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Victor Saville |
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| Writer: | A.J. Cronin, Robert Ardrey, Sonya Levien |
| Staring: |
| An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way. | |
| Release Date: | Jul 04, 1946 |
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| Director: | Victor Saville |
| Writer: | A.J. Cronin, Robert Ardrey, Sonya Levien |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | scotland, based on novel or book, grandparent grandchild relationship, coming of age, orphan, 1900s, great grandfather |
| Production Companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 04, 2026 Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Charles Coburn | Alexander Gow |
| Tom Drake | Robert Shannon as young man |
| 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 |
| Robert North | Murdoch Leckie |
| Beverly Tyler | Alison Keith as a young lady |
| Wallace Ford | Jamie Nigg |
| Eilene Janssen | Alison Keith as a child |
| Richard Lyon | Gavin Blair as a child |
| Henry O'Neill | Canon Roche |
| Henry Stephenson | Blakely |
| Norma Varden | Mrs. Bosomley |
| Henry H. Daniels Jr. | Gavin Blair as a young man |
| Ada Adams | Alison's Mother |
| Norman Ainsley | Sub-Deacon |
| Harry Allen | Purser Teeler |
| Dick Ames | Assistant Inspector |
| Sylvia Andrew | Miss Glennie |
| Morris Ankrum | Dr. Galbraith |
| Jimmy Aubrey | Speller |
| David Bair | Schoolboy |
| Charles Bates | Angelo Friscalli |
| Kathryn Bates | Mrs. McTavish |
| Norman Borine | Baggage Man |
| George Broughton | Assistant Sanitary Inspector |
| Russell Burroughs | Monitor |
| Gabriel Canzona | Organ Grinder |
| Andy Colman | |
| John Considine | Schoolboy |
| Robert Cory | |
| Ashley Cowan | McEwen |
| Peter Cusanelli | Father Friscalli |
| Boyd Davis | Master |
| Helen Dickson | Woman at Fair |
| Yvette Duguay | Daughter |
| Virginia S. Ellsworth | Daughter |
| Herbert Evans | Lector |
| Richard Glynn | Schoolboy |
| Gloria Gordon | |
| Gary Gray | Boy Making First Communion |
| Bobby Hale | |
| Lumsden Hare | Lawyer McKellar |
| Forrester Harvey | Peter Dickie |
| Bonnie Henjum | Daughter |
| Tommy Hughes | |
| Brandon Hurst | Bookseller |
| Tiny Jones | Woman at Fair |
| Colin Kenny | Registrar |
| Donald Kerr | Official at Fair |
| Tom Leffingwell | Station Guard |
| Mitchell Lewis | Smithy |
| Therese Lyon | |
| Janet Sue Marx | Girl |
| Eric Mayne | Singing Teacher |
| John C. McCallum | Baggage Man |
| George McDonald | Bertie Jamieson |
| David McManus | Boy |
| Peggy Miller | Louisa |
| William O'Leary | Mr. McTavish |
| Penny Parker | |
| Tom Pilkington | Postman |
| Jean Ransome | Mrs. Wallace |
| John Power | Constable |
| James Reid | |
| Dorothy Reisner | Daughter Friscalli |
| Carmela Restivo | Mother Friscalli |
| Blanche Rose | Elderly Lady |
| Charles Sadler | Angus |
| Richard Scott | |
| Bill Scully | Priest |
| Violet Seton | Rhubarb Woman |
| Allen D. Sewall | Station Master |
| Edgar Sherrod | Johnson |
| Guy Stockwell | Young Boy |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Robert Kern | Editor |
| A.J. Cronin | Writer |
| Robert Ardrey | Screenplay |
| Herbert Stothart | Original Music Composer |
| Sonya Levien | Screenplay |
| Victor Saville | Director |
| George J. Folsey | Director of Photography |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Leon Gordon | Producer |
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