Actors: Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser,
Oliver Conant, Jennifer O'Neill, Katherine Allentuck, Christopher Norris
Rating: 7 out of 10, A nostalgia piece
written about the Nantucket adventures of a trio of adolescent friends
confronted with coming of age in the shadow of World War 2. This one has
suffered a little bit with the passage of time mainly because the time depicted
in the film is so much longer ago now. The interaction between Oscy and Hermie
still rings true as 15 year olds discovering their interest in girls with some
of the usual associated hijinks. Houser was so good as Oscy paying the lout to
the sensitive Hermie but he seemed a lot funnier when I first saw this so long
ago. What hasn’t changed is the luminescent beauty of Jennifer O’Neill as the
object of Hermie’s worship. The sound track is memorable in its own right and
the attempted softening of what would have gotten O’Neill’s character arrested nowadays
is somehow sweet. Grimes was a little too annoying for my taste but overall the movie still works as a period
coming of age piece
MVP: O’Neill as the beautiful, war
bride Dorothy
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