Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Gary Grimes | ... | Hermie | |
Jerry Houser | ... | Oscy | |
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Oliver Conant | ... | Benjie |
Deborah Winters | ... | Julie | |
William Atherton | ... | Fraternity President | |
Sam Bottoms | ... | Marty | |
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Joe Ponazecki | ... | Professor |
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Murray Westgate | ... | Principal |
Marian Waldman | ... | Grade Advisor | |
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Mary Long | ... | Valedictorian |
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Marcia Diamond | ... | Mrs. Gilhuly |
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Jeffrey Cohen | ... | Editor |
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Susan Marcus | ... | Assistant Editor |
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Lamar Criss | ... | 1st Proctor |
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Michael A. Hoey | ... | 2nd Proctor |
The sequel to Summer of '42 (1971) reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience fraternity hazings, cheating on exams, sex scandals and other unsavory college activities. Hermie grows apart from his childhood friend Oscy and begins a relationship with Julie that allows him to settle down into maturity. Written by alfiehitchie
The kids from that summer in Nantucket in 1942 have now graduated high school in 1944. Gary Grimes and Jerry Houser go off to college while Oliver Conant enlists in the Marines.
From a good dramatic coming of age story with Michel Legrand's great Oscar winning score for the Summer of 31, Class Of 44 is a raher pedestrian story that doesn't seem to have a point. The two college kids feel guilty about their third musketeer off to war as well as otherfamily members. Houser who's no kind of student quits and enlists in the army. Grimes is left alone and gets involved with rich and spoiled Deborah Winters.
The ending is minor and low keyed and one is left with wondering what is it I just saw?
Good actors just plain defeated by a pointless story.