Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Genre: adventure

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Leslie Norman

Credits: Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter, John Mills, Angela Lansbury

Description: Queensland sugarcane cutters Roo and Barney spend the off season in Sydney each year, seeing their girlfriends. For sixteen years Roo has spent the summer with barmaid Olive, bringing her a kewpie doll, while Barney romances Nancy. In the seventeenth year, Barney arrives to find that Nancy has married; however Olive has arranged a replacement, manicurist Pearl. Roo loses his place as head of the cane cutting team to a younger man, Dowd. Dowd falls for Bubba, who has grown up with the cane cutters.

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