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Summer of '42 (1971)

Film · 1971 · 103 min · 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.

Directed by Robert Mulligan

Starring Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, Katherine Allentuck, Christopher Norris, Lou Frizzell, Walter Scott

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In cinemas19 April 1971
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First release anywhere19 April 1971

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