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.
Dean Stockwell
as John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover
Darryl Hickman
as George 'Tough' McCarty
Scotty Beckett
as 'Tennessee' Shad
Leon Ames
as Sr. Samuel H. Stover
Margalo Gillmore
as Maude Stover
Leo G. Carroll
as Mr. Hopkins
Donn Gift
as Joshua Montgomery Smead
Danny Mummert
as "Butsey" White
Elinor Donahue
as Connie Brown
George Chandler
as Johnny
Irving Bacon
as Mr. Conover
Arthur Space
as Al
