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Summer of '42 is a 1971 American coming-of-age film directed by Robert Mulligan, and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, and Christopher Norris. Based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman "Hermie" Raucher, it follows a teenage boy who, during the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, embarks on a one-sided romance with a young ...
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During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, young Hermie, eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter, develops an innocent love for young war bride Dorothy who is awaiting news about her soldier husband's fate in WWII.
Teenage Herman Raucher (Gary Grimes), summering on Nantucket Island with his sex-obsessed pals Oscy (Jerry Houser) and Benji (Oliver Conant) during World...
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Summer of '42 (1971) Word comes to the woman that her husband has been killed in action, and almost wordlessly she takes the adolescent boy to her bed that very same night.
Revisiting Long Island, New York after almost thirty years, a middle-aged man recalls that when he was fifteen years old, his family spent the summer of 1942 there. A war was going on, but it seemed far from the antics of the teenaged Hermie and his best friends, Oscy and Benjie.
Fifteen-year-old, sensitive Hermie (Gary Grimes) and his friends Oscy (Jerry Houser) and Benjie (Oliver Conant), the "terrible trio," spend the long summer days dreaming of and ogling girls. But...
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.
Summer of '42 (1971) In director Robert Mulligan's bittersweet, melancholy, war-time, New England beachside summer romance and coming-of-age tale, it featured Michel Legrand's recognizable, Oscar-winning dramatic score, some soft-focus cinematography, and an Academy Award nomination for Herman Raucher's Best Screenplay:
Jun 17, 2020 · The original version by Michel LeGrand from the soundtrack for The Summer of '42: Peter Nero’s orchestral version hit 21 on the charts in 1971. The pop tune became a standard, recorded by jazz artists including Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans.
