Summer Place (A)
- Director: Delmer Daves
- Writer: Sloan Wilson; Delmer Daves
- Producer: Delmer Daves
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Or...is it a reality check?
Still, it's a despicable film.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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 was younger, but current owner Bart, a drunkard and weak man, must now live there year round for financial survival with his wife Sylvia and their late teen-aged son Johnny, 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, his wife Helen Jorgenson and their late teen-aged daughter Molly Jorgenson - 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.
Cast & Characters
Richard Egan as Ken Jorgenson;
Dorothy McGuire as Sylvia Hunter;
Sandra Dee as Molly Jorgenson;
Arthur Kennedy as Bart Hunter;
Troy Donahue as Johnny Hunter;
Constance Ford as Helen Jorgenson;
Beulah Bondi as Mrs. Emily Hamilton Hamble;
Jack Richardson as Claude Andrews;
Martin Eric as Todd Harper, Handyman at Pine Island Inn;
Eleanor Audley as Mrs. Harrington