A Summer Place. 1959. Written and directed by Delmer Daves

Film

Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 1:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

A Summer Place. 1959. USA. Written and directed by Delmer Daves. Based on the novel by Sloan Wilson. With Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee. 35mm. 130 min.

The summer soap opera at its very best! At one time the Hunter family owned the grandest home on Pine Island, off the coast of Maine. Now, unable to keep up the mansion or pay the taxes, Bart Hunter must open the ancestral home as an inn each summer. Ken Jorgenson, who once worked as a lifeguard for the Hunter family, returns a self-made millionaire—and he’s looking for a grand home of his own on Pine Island. Meanwhile Bart’s son and Ken’s daughter fall in love. Is it real, or is it just a summer fling?

This film accompanies Modern Matinees: Delmer Daves and H. C. Potter in Resonance.

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