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Released
1971 · FILM

Summer of '42

In everyone's life there's a "Summer of '42"

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Written by
Runtime
103 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

In the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends—Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie—are more focused on romantic pursuits than anything else. Hermie becomes infatuated with Dorothy, a married woman whose husband is an army pilot stationed at the front lines of World War II.

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Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Folmar BlangstedShot by Robert SurteesScored by Andre HosseinDesigned by Albert Brenner

Also known as

  • Sommer '42de
  • Verano del 42es
  • Un été 42fr
  • Quell'estate del '42it

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