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Summer of '42 is a 1971 American coming-of-age film directed by Robert Mulligan, and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, and Christopher Norris.
During production, Mulligan kept her isolated from her three young co-stars, particularly Grimes, so that they would not develop a rapport too soon and hinder the sense of awkward tension he was aiming for.
Directed by: Robert Mulligan. Closing Credits and Logo. Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, Katherine Allentuck, Christopher Norris, Lou Frizzell. Title Design: Anthony Goldschmidt. Assistant Directors: Don Kranze, Mel Efros, Irby Smith. Casting: Alixe Gordin, Nessa Hyams. Set Decorator: Marvin March. Sound: Tom Overton.
In the 1960s, he met Robert Mulligan, best known for directing To Kill a Mockingbird. Raucher showed Mulligan the script, and Mulligan took it to Warner Bros., where Mulligan argued the film could be shot for the relatively low price of $1 million, and Warner approved it.
Summer of '42 is a 1971 American coming-of-age film based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman "Hermie" Raucher. It tells the story of how Raucher, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket Island (off the coast of Cape Cod), embarks on a one-sided romance with a young woman, Dorothy, whose husband has gone off to fight in World War II.
The NYT review commended Mulligan’s direction of 15-year-old Gary Grimes (Hermie) and seventeen-year-old Jerry Hauser (Oscy), both of whom made their screen debut in the film, saying that “neither [performer] betrays the mystery of his youthful status with the perfunctory mannerisms of child actors."
Director Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird) keeps a sharp eye on period detail and the comic potential of growing up, keenly observing in the work of Grimes, Jerry Houser and Oliver Conant as a "terrible trio" of fast friends.
