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This is a nearly forgotten youth-oriented flick from the late sixties, done in a style reminiscent of John Cassavetes, with lots of closeups and long takes. It's not a great film, but it captures the bittersweet problems of teenage dating in non-stereotypical fashion.

This black and white film about a summer in the life of Long Island teenagers is slow, and very much a period piece. It's not great as a movie but is interesting as a relic, one of the first movies of a genre, the teen-movie. It's got many of the scenes that have now become cliché but were much fresher in its day; a scene at the beach where the non-too- bright jock kicks sand at the introspective bookish boy, a scene of underage drinking, a fumbling attempt at making out in a car and finally the scene where the meek one stands up to the bully.

While film students with a historical bent should see this, it's probably too dated and slow moving for the casual viewer.

What a hidden treasure from the 60's! Seeing a young Jon Voight just before Midnight Cowboy, and the ever so lovely Lada Edmund Jr. light up the screen in two great performances! Many guys from that era remember Lada from Hullabaloo! Interesting story and great photography make this film a mustsee! Why Lada did not make more films is mystery!

The fun in this picture is in the period '60 details: The clothes, the Corvair convertible, the teased hair. Voight plays a teenaged jock/bully almost too well, no mean feat considering he was 30 at the time. This is the ancestor to all the recent teens-discovering-sex pictures.

I actually saw some of the scenes filmed in this movie. they were filmed in Hewlett NY at a small movie theater and in a parking lot under a bowling alley neither of which exist anymore. It was wild because I was the age of the characters in the movie living a similar life as they were.

I was in a few scenes but i think they ended up on the cutting room floor. At the time I didn't even know who John Voight was. I remember the labor that went into a few scenes and having to wait quite a long time for it to show in the theater so we could finally find out what it was really about. Pretty cool!