A Summer Place (film)

A Summer Place
A Summer Place
	Film poster
Directed by	Delmer Daves
Screenplay by	Delmer Daves
Based on	A Summer Place; 1958 novel; by Sloan Wilson
Starring	Richard Egan; Dorothy McGuire; Troy Donahue; Sandra Dee; Arthur Kennedy; Constance Ford;
Cinematography	Harry Stradling
Edited by	Owen Marks
Music by	Max Steiner
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	November 18, 1959 (United States);
Running time	130 minutes
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]

^ "A Summer Place (1959)". BBFC (British Board of Film Classification). Retrieved May 25, 2015.
^ 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.