Summer of '63

Summer of '63 (1972)

** (out of 4)

Forgotten VD film has a group of male friends going into a bar where they pick up a few hookers and one of the friends, Jim, ends up with syphilis. Soon Jim ends up sleeping with his best friend's girl and then learns he has the disease but is too ashamed to tell them what he has done. This is pretty bland and gets pretty boring even though it only runs 21-minutes. There were countless shorts that dealt with sexually transmitted diseases and most of them are as boring as this one so the main reason to watch is the camp factor. There's a little bit of that here but not enough to keep this thing moving. There aren't any laughs either, which is another thing that keeps this film from really working as good as it should. It also doesn't teach you any lessons so there goes that reason.

Just recently saw this short one morning early on cable and even though now outdated it's message is nice and good to take a note of! At it's time the little documentary felt right as the 60's and 70's were swinging times before the AIDS plague of the 80's and 90's. And this film made in 1972 titled "Summer of 1963" is right on about the then big dangers of other sexual diseases.

Told and narrated from Dr. Monk Monahan he tells of his life of fun and pleasure of his early teens days as along with his buddy before his college years they both double date some beach beauties. And of course at that age the hormones are in a rage and plenty of intimate fun happens.

Only aside from the fun Dr. Monk now tells and as is shown in the short film the price he paid, as we see and hear that his doctor has discovered the big G and slimy S that's right gonorrhea and syphilis were both given to young boy Monk. Yet it proves these diseases are treatable. Overall good short that brings awareness and it educates nice film that's outdated, but worth a look.

Yes it is outdated, but the message is clear. Wear a rubber and you can avoid a blubber of any one of many STD's (Sexually Transmitted Disease) for the kiddies who need it spelled out. Fun is fun, but not when you have no choice but to see a doctor to get rid of an unwanted itch....or worse symptoms.

I give it a past its prime date IMDB rating of 4 out of 10.