A Summer Place (film)

A Summer Place
Film poster
Directed byDelmer Daves
Screenplay byDelmer Daves
Based onA Summer Place
1958 novel
by Sloan Wilson
Starring
CinematographyHarry Stradling
Edited byOwen Marks
Music byMax Steiner
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • November 18, 1959 (1959-11-18) (United States)
Running time
130 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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]

  1. ^ "A Summer Place (1959)". BBFC (British Board of Film Classification). Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  2. ^ Bronson, Fred (October 1, 2003). The Billboard Book of Number One Hits (5th ed.). New York: Billboard Books. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-8230-7677-2.