Word: loved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dharma Bums. The reason I quoted it was because you have to hear Oriental poems a couple of times before you get used to them. Listen: Red ivy on brown brick/spike heels catch on cobblestone walks/ pennants hang limp on barroom walls/Christ, if my love were in my arms and I in bed again...
Anyway, the air, as somebody remarks, is frightfully aphrodisiacal, and pretty soon the place turns into "a perverted Garden of Eden." Wife No. 1 (Dorothy McGuire) and Husband No. 2 (Richard Egan), who had been lovers in their teens, fall in love again, and one night they slip off to the old boathouse together. Meanwhile, Egan's daughter (Sandra Dee) and McGuire's son (Troy Donahue), both in their teens, wreck a sailboat and spend the night on a deserted beach. When Husband No. 1 (Arthur Kennedy) and Wife No. 2 (Constance Ford) wake up to what...
...Having demonstrated the various advantages of adultery, the film goes on to make it clear to the movie audience that sexual dalliance between unmarried adolescents is really quite all right, provided they are in love and are willing to confess all to their parents and stand up in church when the girl gets pregnant...
...story argues for a healthy relativity in morals. But the relativity of A Summer Place is anchored to no absolutes. The film treats adultery as casually as if there were nothing at all holy about matrimony. And along with moral sensitivity, the film lacks social responsibility. The adolescent love scenes are an inflammation to imitation...
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Love, marriage and financial trouble in a tenement section of Brooklyn. With Marisa Pavan...