Summer of '42

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Summer of '42 (1971)

PG 04/19/1971 (US) Comedy, Drama, Romance 1h 43m

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

Overview

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.

Robert Mulligan

Director
Herman Raucher

Writer

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)
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A review by Wuchak

80%

Written by Wuchak on 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... read the rest.

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