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Summer of '42

Name: Summer of '42
Director: Robert Mulligan
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1971
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, Katherine Allentuck

Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Hermie falls in love with the married Dorothy, whose husband is an army pilot recently sent to the battlefront of World War II.

1971 · Directed by Robert Mulligan · 103 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance · 10 frames

Tagline

In everyone's life there's a "Summer of '42"

Crew

Written by: Herman Raucher
Cinematography: Robert Surtees
Edited by: Folmar Blangsted
Music: Michel Legrand
Production design: Albert Brenner
Produced by: Richard A. Roth

Cast

Jennifer O'Neill as Dorothy
Gary Grimes as Hermie
Jerry Houser as Oscy
Oliver Conant as Benjie
Katherine Allentuck as Aggie
Christopher Norris as Miriam
Lou Frizzell as Druggist
Walter Scott as Dorothy's Husband (uncredited)
Maureen Stapleton as Hermie's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
Robert Mulligan as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures
Themes: island, beach, sexual frustration, age difference, obsession, world war ii, sand, coming of age, summer vacation, beach house

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