The Long Days of Summer
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| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Hindi Brooks Lee Hutson |
| Directed by | Dan Curtis |
| Starring |
Dean Jones Joan Hackett Ronnie Scribner Louanne Donald Moffat Andrew Duggan David Baron Michael McGuire |
| Narrated by | Charles Aidman |
| Music by | Walter Scharf |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Executive producer(s) | Dan Curtis |
| Producer(s) | Lee Hutson Joseph Stern |
| Cinematography | Charles Correll |
| Editor(s) | Bernard Gribble |
| Running time | 81 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Dan Curtis Productions |
| Distributor | ABC |
| Budget | $750,000 |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | May 23, 1980 |
The Long Days of Summer is a 1980 American made-for-television drama film and a sequel to When Every Day Was the Fourth of July (1978). Taking place one year later, the story follows now 13-year-old Danny and the Cooper family in 1938, as they begin to experience the effects of growing antisemitism in their small New England town, parallelling what is happening overseas in Hitler's Germany. The film was produced and directed by Dan Curtis and stars Dean Jones, Donald Moffat, Ronnie Scribner and Louanne.
It's the summer of 1938 in Bridgeport, Connecticut and Jewish 13-year-old, Daniel Cooper (now portrayed by Ronnie Scribner) finds himself tangling with the bigoted playground bully, Freddy Landauer (David Baron). As the talk of Bridgeport centers around the pending rematch between boxing heavyweight champ Joe Louis and his German challenger, Danny is challenged to a boxing match with the Landauer boy, to which he feels he has no choice but to accept. Paralleling his plight, Danny's father (Dean Jones) also begins to experience antisemitism when he takes in a Jewish boarder from Germany (Donald Moffat) who has come to the United States to warn of the increasing menace overseas in the form of Adolf Hitler. As Danny and his family are faced with their own pressures from within their small-town community, they must each make difficult decisions about standing up for what is right in the face of discrimination and intimidation.
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