Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Hermie falls in love with the married Dorothy, whose husband is an army pilot recently sent to the battlefront of World War II.
- island
- beach
- sexual frustration
- age difference
- obsession
- world war ii
- sand
- coming of age
- summer vacation
- beach house
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Katherine Allentuck — Aggie
- Christopher Norris — Miriam
- Lou Frizzell — Druggist
- Walter Scott — Dorothy's Husband (uncredited)
- Maureen Stapleton — Hermie's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
- Robert Mulligan — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Directed
- Robert Mulligan
- Written
- Herman Raucher
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 164 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
