A Summer Place

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces A Summer Place, 1959.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces A Summer Place, 1959.

Guest host Alicia Malone introduces A Summer Place, 1959.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces A Summer Place, 1957.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Summer Place, 1959.

A version of the giant hit theme song by Max Steiner accompanies Johnny (Troy Donahue), son of the troubled couple that owns the resort, escorting Sandra Dee (as Molly), daughter of the VIP guests, with provocative talk and shots from writer-producer-director Delmer Daves in A Summer Place, 1959, from the novel by Sloan Wilson.

Critical revelations as well-to-do Ken (Richard Egan), visiting the island inn owned by Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire) and her useless boozy husband Bart, steps in to fix the roof and revisit their implied but so-far not confirmed old romance, a big moment in Delmer Davis’ hit melodrama A Summer Place, 1959, also starring Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue.

Following the credits we meet Bart (Arthur Kennedy) and Sylvia Hunter (Dorothy McGuire) who have money troubles, in writer, producer and director Delmer Daves' A Summer Place, 1959, from the Sloan Wilson novel.

Rescued teens Molly (Sandra Dee) and John (Troy Donahue) return from their night stranded on a coastal island, her mother Helen (Constance Ford) assuming they have sinned, in Delmer Daves' A Summer Place, 1959.

The famous theme fades on Molly (Sandra Dee) and John (Troy Donahue) in the garden, her up-tight mother Helen (Constance Ford) spying, complaining to husband Ken (Richard Egan), in the Warner Bros. hit A Summer Place, 1959.

An adulterous couple discovers that their children, Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue, are sexually involved in the Warner Bros. pot-boiler A Summer Place, 1959.