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.

Cast

Jennifer O'Neill

Jennifer O'Neill

as Dorothy

Gary Grimes

Gary Grimes

as Hermie

Jerry Houser

Jerry Houser

as Oscy

Oliver Conant

Oliver Conant

as Benjie

Katherine Allentuck

Katherine Allentuck

as Aggie

Christopher Norris

Christopher Norris

as Miriam

Lou Frizzell

Lou Frizzell

as Druggist

Walter Scott

Walter Scott

as Dorothy's Husband (uncredited)

Maureen Stapleton

Maureen Stapleton

as Hermie's Mother (voice) (uncredited)

Robert Mulligan

Robert Mulligan

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Reviews

Wuchak

Sex-obsessed boys on Nantucket in 1942 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. He and his two pals, Oscy and Benji, hang out on t...

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