Summer of '42

Name: Summer of '42
Released: 1971
Rating: 6.7

1971 · Movie

103 min English

166 votes

ComedyDramaRomance

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.

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Cast, directors & writers

Jennifer O'Neill

Dorothy

Gary Grimes

Hermie

Jerry Houser

Oscy

Oliver Conant

Benjie

Katherine Allentuck

Aggie

Christopher Norris

Miriam

Lou Frizzell

Druggist

Walter Scott

Dorothy's Husband (uncredited)

Maureen Stapleton

Hermie's Mother (voice) (uncredited)

Robert Mulligan

Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · Director

Herman Raucher

Writer

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

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