A Summer Place (1959)
3.5 of 5 from 47 ratings
2h 10min
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- Synopsis:
The Hunter family has long owned a mansion on Pine Island, a summer resort located off the Maine coast. Bart Hunter's now deceased father was able to open the mansion for free when Bart (Arthur Kennedy) was younger, but current owner Bart, a drunkard and weak man, must now live there year round for financial survival with his wife Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire) and their late teen-aged son Johnny (Troy Donahue), the family who are barely able to eke out a living with the mansion now as a year-round inn which is in an extreme state of disrepair. Bart and Sylvia are in a quietly unhappy marriage due largely to Bart's drinking. The Buffalo-based Jorgensons - husband Ken Jorgenson (Richard Egan), his wife Helen Jorgenson (Constance Ford) and their late teen-aged daughter Molly Jorgenson (Sandra Dee) - have rented rooms at the inn for the summer, while Ken looks for a summer house on the island. Ken lived on the island twenty years ago, he actually a working class lifeguard for Bart's father at that time. Ken is now a self-made millionaire as a research scientist, who had never been back... - Actors:
- Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Troy Donahue, Constance Ford, Beulah Bondi, Jack Richardson, Martin Eric
- Directors:
- Delmer Daves
- Writers:
- Sloan Wilson, Delmer Daves
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
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- A History of Cinemas in Films
