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Summer of '42

Name: Summer of '42
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1971
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, Katherine Allentuck

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

1971·1h 43m·🇺🇸

ComedyDramaRomance

7.2/ 1010,058 votes

Direction

Writing

Music

Cinematography

Cast

Jennifer O'Neill

Dorothy

Gary Grimes

Hermie

Jerry Houser

Oscy

Oliver Conant

Benjie

Katherine Allentuck

Aggie

Christopher Norris

Miriam

Lou Frizzell

Druggist

Walter Scott

Dorothy's Husband (uncredited)

Maureen Stapleton

Hermie's Mother (voice) (uncredited)

Robert Mulligan

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Synopsis

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.