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Summer of '42

Summer of '42
★ 6.7/10•1971•1h 43m•PG•Comedy•Drama•Romance

In everyone's life there's a "Summer of '42"

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

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 43m
LanguageEN
Release DateApr 19, 1971

Actors

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

Dorothy's Husband (uncredited)

Maureen Stapleton

Maureen Stapleton

Hermie's Mother (voice) (uncredited)

Robert Mulligan

Robert Mulligan

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

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