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In everyone's life there's a "Summer of '42" - Summer of '42
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Title: Summer of '42

Release Date: 19 Apr 1971

Runtime: 1h 43m

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures

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.

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Average Vote: 6.7 (146 votes)

Cast

  • Dorothy: Jennifer O'Neill
  • Hermie: Gary Grimes
  • Oscy: Jerry Houser
  • Benjie: Oliver Conant
  • Aggie: Katherine Allentuck
  • Miriam: Christopher Norris
  • Druggist: Lou Frizzell
  • Dorothy's Husband (uncredited): Walter Scott
  • Hermie's Mother (voice) (uncredited): Maureen Stapleton
  • Narrator (voice) (uncredited): Robert Mulligan
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