I'm watching this movie, 'A Summers Place' for the first time...
In my opinion, it's a good movie, but what stood out to me was the conversation between the husband and wife about their daughter who kissed a boy she liked. The husband told his wife off, it was magnificent.
The Husband: [angry and disgusted] So, now you hate the Swedes. How many outlets for your hate do you have, Helen? We haven't been able to find a new house because of your multiplicity of them. We can't buy near a school because you hate kids. They make noise. And there can't be any Jews or Catholics on the block, either. And, oh, yes, it can't be anywhere near the Polish or Italian sections. And, of course, Negroes have to be avoided at all costs. Now, let's see: No Jews, no Catholics, no Italians, no Poles, no children. No Negroes. Do I have the list right, so far? And now, you've added Swedes. And, oh, yes, you won't use a Chinese laundry because you distrust Orientals. And you think the British are snobbish, the Russians fearful, the French immoral, the Germans brutal, and all Latin Americans lazy. What's your plan? To cut humanity out? Are you anti-people and anti-life? Must you suffocate every natural instinct in our daughter, too? Must you label young love-making as cheap and wanton and indecent? Must you persist in making sex, itself, a filthy word?
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and people still think like this
Sad. Generation to generation hate. This generation Hispanic immigrants looking for a better life. Middle Easterners looking for a better life and AA's for sure, just for breathing. 
and the discussion of sex was pretty advanced for the time. In addition to the main youth romance story, the dysfunctional marriage dramatized by actors Richard Egan and Constance Ford who plays the uptight, villain mother and wife is realistic and blunt.
Many people unfortunately think that the 1950s were only about comfortable, WASP middle class families and epoch suburban consumerism in America. That stereotype holds some truth, but then there were also many continuing liberal and progressive currents and efforts underway socially, legally, in the arts and with racial advancement.
The movie is on two AFI 'best 100 lists,' one for Max Steiner's excellent music score. A Frank Lloyd Wright home was also used in the film. *I just read this on the WIKI, but can't print their MOVIE LINK here for some odd reason, just the 1958 novel link.
https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2011/01/summer-place-old-love-rekindled-and-new.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_Place_(film)
