The Long Days of Summer (1980)

Directors

Dan Curtis

Cast

Dean Jones

The story

In the summer of 1938 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Jewish 13-year-old, Daniel Cooper finds himself tangling with the bigoted playground bully, Freddy Landauer. As the talk of Bridgeport centers around the pending rematch between boxing heavyweight champ Joe Louis and his German challenger Max Schmeling, Danny is challenged to a boxing match with Freddy, to which he feels he has no choice but to accept. Paralleling Danny's plight, his father Ed also begins to experience antisemitism when he takes in a Jewish boarder from Germany, Josef Kaplan, who has come to the United States to warn of the increasing menace overseas in the form of Adolf…

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