A Summer Place (1959)
Note: this print runs 121 minutes against a recorded 131 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Troy Donahue, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Beulah Bondi, Jack Richardson, Ann Doran
Directed by Delmer Daves
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.
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