Summer of '42

1971 · directed by Robert Mulligan

Rating

69/100

Hit

no

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.

Summer of '42 (1971), directed by Robert Mulligan, rates 69/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Jennifer O'Neill
• Gary Grimes
• Jerry Houser
• Oliver Conant
• Katherine Allentuck
• Christopher Norris
• Lou Frizzell
• Walter Scott
• Maureen Stapleton
• Robert Mulligan

Crew

• Robert Surtees — Director of Photography
• Folmar Blangsted — Editor
• Michel Legrand — Original Music Composer
• Herman Raucher — Writer

More from Robert Mulligan

1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) — 96/100 · hit
2. The Man in the Moon (1991) — 77/100
3. Come September (1961) — 75/100
4. Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) — 75/100
5. The Other (1972) — 70/100
6. Same Time, Next Year (1978) — 57/100

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