Summer of '42 (1971) ( Summer of 42 (Summer of Forty Two) )

Summer of '42 (1971) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Summer of 42 (Summer of Forty Two)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1971 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Robert Mulligan

Written By:
Herman Raucher

Actors:
Jennifer O'Neill ..... Dorothy
Gary Grimes ..... Hermie
Jerry Houser ..... Oscy
Oliver Conant ..... Benjie
Katherine Allentuck ..... Aggie
Christopher Norris ..... Miriam
Lou Frizzell ..... Druggist

Synopsis:

Japan attacked the United States on December 7, 1941.The 'Summer of '42' depicts the loneliness of just one of the war brides of the time. Dorothy (Jennifer O'Neill) has a husband in service. She is vacationing at a beach cabin with the implication that, by the sea, her husband will come home soon. Hermie, a teenager in a beach cabin nearby, is coming of age and he and his two buddies are looking for their first intimate encounter. Hermie meets Dorothy in a store, and soon helps her with small projects. Early one evening he arrives at her cabin and notices a telegram informing Dorothy that her husband has been killed in action. Grieving and desperate for comfort, Dorothy seduces Hermie in a gentle way. This movie attempts to portray the emptiness of the young women whose husbands went to fight in WW II. It is an example of the shift in story lines in the late '60s and early '70. Soft sex and implied violence got a start around this time.

A surprise success in 1971 ($20 million worth of "surprise"), The Summer of '42 is a coming-of-age piece, drenched in nostalgia. Director Robert Mulligan narrates the film as the grown-up counterpart of Hermie (Gary Grimes), a teenager of the War Years who has a crush on twentyish Jennifer O'Neill. With O'NEILL's soldier husband off to war, Grimes convinces himself that he can take hubby's place in every way. O'NEILL is amused by Grimes' attentions (confined to doing chores and carrying her groceries), but never thinks of him in sexual terms. And then, O'NEILL's husband is killed in battle. Herman Raucher based his intensely nostalgic script on his own experience, going so far as to use the real names of past acquaintances (including the Jennifer O'Neill counterpart) as character names in his screenplay. An Academy Award went to Michel LeGrand's evocative musical score. Summer of '42 was later novelized by Raucher, then followed up on screen by the less effective Class of 44.

Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who's married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her.

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