Summer of '42 (1971)
April 19, 1971
Comedy, Drama, Romance
1h 43m
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In everyone's life there's a "Summer of '42"
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Robert Mulligan
- Dorothy Jennifer O'Neill
- Hermie Gary Grimes
- Oscy Jerry Houser
- Benjie Oliver Conant
- Aggie Katherine Allentuck
- Miriam Christopher Norris
- Druggist Lou Frizzell
- Dorothy's Husband (uncredited) Walter Scott
Recommendations
Keywords
- island
- beach
- sexual frustration
- age difference
- obsession
- world war ii
- sand
- coming of age
- summer vacation
- beach house
- first love
- older woman younger man relationship
- sexual awakening
- 1940s
- summer cottage
- soldier's wife