A Summer Place | |
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Directed by | Delmer Daves |
Screenplay by | Delmer Daves |
Based on | A Summer Place 1958 novel by Sloan Wilson |
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Cinematography | Harry Stradling |
Edited by | Owen Marks |
Music by | Max Steiner |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 130 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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 movie, which stars Richard Egan and Dorothy McGuire as the middle-aged lovers, 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.[2]