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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its aching young romance is constrained by status-conscious parents and sexual double standards, with the same glossy mid-century melodrama gradually giving way to real emotional damage.
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Why this pick
A small town’s polished respectability conceals cruelty, repression, and complicated family histories; it shares A Summer Place’s lavish, emotionally overheated view of adult hypocrisy affecting the young.
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Why this pick
Another lush Troy Donahue vehicle, set amid a beautiful but troubled rural estate, where youthful longing meets class friction, domineering adults, and simmering romantic entanglements.
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Why this pick
This expansive Southern family melodrama pairs handsome color cinematography with damaged parents, inherited secrets, and a son’s difficult initiation into the adult world.
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Why this pick
For the romantic fatalism and class-conscious desire: a young man’s love life becomes inseparable from wealth, aspiration, and the punishing judgments surrounding him.
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01 / THE STORY
Alcoholic Bart Hunter (Arthur Kennedy), his long-suffering wife Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), and their teenage son Johnny (Troy Donahue) operate a crumbling inn on Pine Island off the Maine coast. The inn was previously Bart's elegant family mansion in an exclusive resort, but as his family fortunes have dwindled, the Hunters are forced to rent rooms to paying guests. Bart receives a reservation request from an old acquaintance, Ken Jorgenson (Richard Egan (actor)), who was a lowly lifeguard on the island twenty years ago, but is now a successful research chemist and millionaire. Ken wants to bring his wife and daughter to the island for the summer. Bart suggests that Ken is just coming to lord his new wealth over Bart, who is no longer rich. Bart wants to refuse the reservation, but Sylvia insists that he accept because they badly need the money, even going so far as to move themselves into the small guest house so their own master bedroom suite can be rented to Ken and his family.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Ken Jorgenson
Molly Jorgenson
Helen Jorgenson
Mrs. Emily Hamilton Hamble
Sylvia Hunter
Bart Hunter
Johnny Hunter
