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Summer of '42 (1971)

PG 04/19/1971 Comedy, Drama, Romance 1h 43m
67%
User
Score
7.2/10
78%
59/100

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

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Top Billed Cast

Jennifer O'Neill

Jennifer O'Neill

Dorothy

Gary Grimes

Gary Grimes

Hermie

Jerry Houser

Jerry Houser

Oscy

Oliver Conant

Oliver Conant

Benjie

Katherine Allentuck

Katherine Allentuck

Aggie

Christopher Norris

Christopher Norris

Miriam

Lou Frizzell

Lou Frizzell

Druggist

Walter Scott

Walter Scott

Dorothy's Husband (uncredited)

Maureen Stapleton

Maureen Stapleton

Hermie's Mother (voice) (uncredited)

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Summer of '42 (1971) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

Summer of '42 (1971) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written 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, which is fitting since it was based on a real-life. It’s basically about a teenage boy in awe of a beautiful adult whoa-man of whom O’Neill fills the bill. Hermie has a mature, spiritua...

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