In Summer of Laura from 1975 a man walks slowly along a lonely beach on a summer colony off the Long Island coast, reliving a summer when he was nineteen. Richie, (David Hunter), has a friend on the island, Gene (Eric Edwards), who is gregarious and mischievous. Like the more sensitive Richie, he too, was nineteen. During that summer of awakening he loses his youthful desires and develops his manhood. On the way to the movies, Richie literally bumps into Laura, (introducing Marsha Moon), an older woman who lives nearby. She asks him if he'll help her with some chores the following day. He is totally flustered, but agrees. Richie goes to her house and after knocking on the door, and getting no response, enters. On the floor he finds a crumpled telegram which reads, "Your husband, Bob Hayes, has been killed in action." Laura appears, lonely and vulnerable. She moves towards him in a gesture of human contact. They slowly begin to dance. "That summer we lost five frisbees, saved a girl from a silly snake, saw our first skin flick, and I lost my Laura." The sea rises and the past is over. Cast: Eric Edwards, Helen Madigan, Kim Pope, Marsha Moon, Wade Nichols, David Hunter
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