The Last Summer
- Episode aired Aug 4, 1958
- 1h
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A country boy is taken in by a scheming rich girl who is spending her vacation in the country.A country boy is taken in by a scheming rich girl who is spending her vacation in the country.A country boy is taken in by a scheming rich girl who is spending her vacation in the country.
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- TriviaThe background music in one scene later became the theme music for "Peyton Place."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Studio One Documentary (2002)
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Whoa, what a show. And, these were live.
Westinghouse's "Studio One" are little gem- er, let's call them diamonds, because I'm tired of seeing the descriptive "gems" so much. Studio One has been airing on the "Decades" network 11pm Pacific. I've been scheduling my evenings around this show. Guys, these shows were LIVE. The audio to the programs is not as good as you'd like, it's muffled and hard to decipher, no closed captioning, keep your ears tuned.
His father died after losing everything in a financial failure, leaving his mother to take in sewing and "Harry" working as a bicycle paper boy earning "sixteen dollars and eighty cents a week> I have five hundred saved up in a box under my bed that I'm saving for when I go away to school" he tells a girl just down for the summer. The "summer girl" from the city, "Harry" confides in her "we used to be 'summer people' too, y'know, just like.. your family.. then the banks failed and dad lost everything and we... we lost all our money." There's a dance. "Please come", she tells him. He spends too much money on a new jacket for the dance, upsetting and concerning his seamstress mother: "I could have taken in one of your father's old jackets! $18 dollars! Harry, that is eighteen dollars out of the only five-hundred dollars that has to last you a WHOLE YEAR while you're away at school!".
The city girl has a birthday party. "Harry" does something just unthinkable and terribly regrettable that could, well probably will- alter his life forever. "Harry" does a very stupid thing that even etiquette books today warn people not to do. A thing that isn't scandalous, it's just using very poor judgment and not thinking.
The character playing his mother says something to him, that is just heartbreaking in the last ten minutes of the show that sums it all up. Don't miss it.
I gotta say, Dennis Hopper is absolutely remarkable in this. It is unbelievable really, just how good he is. What a perfect vehicle this was for him, well, you'll see it if you view this episode. He is so natural and so much the character, he is the character. Very well cast, well acted, everything. You cringe with Hopper, you want to cry with his mother, you are there because you feel just what the director (John Frankenheimer, who being born in 1930 would have made him a young man at only 28 when he directed this, pure genius he was) wants you to feel.
If you get the chance to own a set of these, or download a set off of public domain if available it would be a wise investment. What a change in content we have now in 2017 than the TV audiences had sixty years ago. Imagine this show being on the air prime time now and live to boot.
His father died after losing everything in a financial failure, leaving his mother to take in sewing and "Harry" working as a bicycle paper boy earning "sixteen dollars and eighty cents a week> I have five hundred saved up in a box under my bed that I'm saving for when I go away to school" he tells a girl just down for the summer. The "summer girl" from the city, "Harry" confides in her "we used to be 'summer people' too, y'know, just like.. your family.. then the banks failed and dad lost everything and we... we lost all our money." There's a dance. "Please come", she tells him. He spends too much money on a new jacket for the dance, upsetting and concerning his seamstress mother: "I could have taken in one of your father's old jackets! $18 dollars! Harry, that is eighteen dollars out of the only five-hundred dollars that has to last you a WHOLE YEAR while you're away at school!".
The city girl has a birthday party. "Harry" does something just unthinkable and terribly regrettable that could, well probably will- alter his life forever. "Harry" does a very stupid thing that even etiquette books today warn people not to do. A thing that isn't scandalous, it's just using very poor judgment and not thinking.
The character playing his mother says something to him, that is just heartbreaking in the last ten minutes of the show that sums it all up. Don't miss it.
I gotta say, Dennis Hopper is absolutely remarkable in this. It is unbelievable really, just how good he is. What a perfect vehicle this was for him, well, you'll see it if you view this episode. He is so natural and so much the character, he is the character. Very well cast, well acted, everything. You cringe with Hopper, you want to cry with his mother, you are there because you feel just what the director (John Frankenheimer, who being born in 1930 would have made him a young man at only 28 when he directed this, pure genius he was) wants you to feel.
If you get the chance to own a set of these, or download a set off of public domain if available it would be a wise investment. What a change in content we have now in 2017 than the TV audiences had sixty years ago. Imagine this show being on the air prime time now and live to boot.
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- KayMack23
- Aug 10, 2017
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