Top Billed Cast
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)
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Review 1DiscussionA review by Wuchak
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Written by Wuchak on Mon May 21 2018
Sex-obsessed boys on Nantucket in 1942
RELEASED IN 1971 and directed by Robert Mulligan, "Summer of '42” is the biographical drama of Herman “Hermie” Raucher (Gary Grimes) coming of age at 15 during the titular season & year on Nantucket Island. He and his two pals, Oscy and Benji, hang out on the island learning about sex and chasing girls. Meanwhile, Hermie is an awe of a 21 year-old woman (Jennifer O'Neill) whose soldier husband is off fighting WWII.
This is such a well-done classic film from the early 70s. The island locales are breathtaking while the story is low-key realistic, wh...
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Original Language
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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
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