Amazon.com: Think A Summer Place, and you'll probably be humming Max Steiner's wonderfully romantic instrumental theme song, a hand-holding hit in 1959. The movie itself is similarly irresistible, a colorful soap opera about the passions of a pair of dewy-eyed teens and their straying parents. At an island resort in Maine, Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue (the reigning teen idols of the day) fall hard for each other. What they don't know is that her father (Richard Egan) and his mother (Dorothy McGuire), lovers 20 years earlier, have rekindled their affair. Both, inconveniently, have spouses, which is what makes this a soap opera. Lovers of camp will find much to savor in the incredible '50s attitudes, and in the innocence of supervirgin Dee ("Johnny, have you been bad with girls?"). Yet the sincerity of writer-director Delmer Daves, cowriter of An Affair to Remember, comes shining through the corn; and the grown-up affair anticipates The Bridges of Madison County by 30 years. --Robert Horton
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301706582 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6301706587 Label: Warner Home Video Languages:EnglishUnknown Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: January 27, 1993 Running Time: 130 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: November 18, 1959
Customer Reviews
Great memory
This is one of the movies which one remembers due to the music "summer place". Today it looks like a naive and puritan movie (like Romeo and Juliet) which the new generation won't even understand. I liked it than and like it today and Troy and Sandra are a cute couple (not really great actors).