Summer of '42 (1971)

1971 · 103 min · Comedy, Drama, Romance

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.

Directed by Robert Mulligan. Starring Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant and Katherine Allentuck.

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