Summer Of ’42
feature film, 1971
DIRECTED BY: Robert Mulligan
CAST:
Jennifer O'Neill (Dorothy),
Gary Grimes (Hermie),
Jerry Houser (Oscy),
Oliver Conant (Benjie),
Katherine Allentuck (Aggie)
SCRIPT:
Herman Raucher
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Robert Surtees
Synopsis:
Herman Raucher wrote the screenplay for this film based on his own experience from his youth in the summer of 1942, spent on Nantucket Island in New England. It tells the story of a boy who falls in love with a woman whose husband is at war. The film begins with the story of the old Hermie (Robert Mulligan’s voice) who reminisces about the summer of 1942…
35 mm, color, 103 min