That Summer!

That Summer! is a 1979 British drama film directed by Harley Cokeliss, starring Ray Winstone, Tony London, Emily Moore and Julie Shipley. This was Ray Winstone's theatrical film debut, playing the character Steve Brodie.

Plot

It is the story of a 21-year-old named Steve Brodie (Ray Winstone) who goes to the Devon seaside resort of Torquay after leaving borstal where he is seen easily winning in a swimming race. He befriends the son of a butcher from London named Jimmy and they start dating two girls from Northern England. Steve works in a pub, Jimmy hires skiffs on the beach and the girls are employed as chambermaids at a hotel. Three loutish Scottish youths have some confrontations with Steve and then frame him for a robbery at a chemist shop. This leads to his arrest just before the start of a 'round the bay' swimming race in which he is due to compete against one of them.

The soundtrack was produced as an LP with several punk bands. The album was available on unique yellow vinyl.

That Summer

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That Summer (Drury novel)

That Summer is a 1965 novel by political novelist Allen Drury which chronicles melodrama among the elite in the California town of Greenmont. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Michael Joseph, and then by Coward-McCann in the United States in 1966.

The 1967 Dell paperback edition featured the tagline, "the new Peyton Place of the California monied set, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Advise and Consent".

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