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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, embarks on a one-sided romance with a young woman ...
Apr 12, 2023 · Until George Lucas came along, Summer of ’42 represented the high watermark of melodrama. Though Stanley Kubrick never stepped into the teen market, he was a huge fan of this particular film. Indeed, according to his wife Christiane, The Summer of ’42 may have been his favourite.
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.
Teenage Herman Raucher (Gary Grimes), summering on Nantucket Island with his sex-obsessed pals Oscy (Jerry Houser) and Benji (Oliver Conant) during World War II, meets Dorothy (Jennifer O'Neill...
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Jul 26, 2022 · Exactly 80 years ago, the now-legendary New York writer Herman “Hermie” Raucher stopped being a child, as he confessed in his film biography, Summer of ’42 (1971), a project that took him more than a decade to complete while working as a television, theater and commercials writer.
Summer of ’42. 102 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1971. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1971. 3 min read. 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.
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A review of the classic 1971 coming-of-age comedy drama Summer of ’42 starring Gary Grimes and Jennifer O’Neal.
