A Summer Place (1959)

Directed by

Delmer Daves

Genre

drama film, romance film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 11m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two former teenage sweethearts reunite after twenty years. They have a new romance but their children from previous marriages start a passionate affair of their own.

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What happens

A Summer Place is a 1959 American romantic drama film based on Sloan Wilson's 1958 novel of the same name, about teenage lovers from different classes who get back together 20 years later, and then must deal with the passionate love affair of their own teenage children by previous marriages. Delmer Daves directed the film, which stars Richard Egan and Dorothy McGuire as a couple, and Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue as their respective children. The film contains a memorable instrumental theme composed by Max Steiner, which spent nine weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1960. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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