Biography
Herman Raucher (born April 13, 1928) is an American author and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the autobiographical screenplay and novel Summer of '42, which became one of the highest-grossing films and one of the best selling novels of the 1970s, respectively. He began his writing career during the Golden Age of Television, when he moonlighted as a scriptwriter while working for a Madison Avenue advertising agency. He effectively retired from writing in the 1980s after a number of pr...
Complete Filmography
Ode
2010
Original Story
"Tallahatchie Bridge": With those two simple words, the powerful images of a lost innocence, a murky river and a mysterious suicide spring to mind. Sc...
Sweet November
2001
Original Film Writer
Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very differ...
Morning Patrol
1987
Novel
A deserted city is the setting, where a woman walks alone trying to approach and enter the forbidden zone. Traps and the morning patrol lurk everywher...
The Other Side of Midnight
1977
Writer
When French beauty Noelle Page falls in love with American pilot Larry Douglas, she believes he'll marry her. Instead, he returns to the U.S and marri...
Ode to Billy Joe
1976
Writer
Set in sultry 1950s Mississippi, two teenagers grapple with surging hormones and the enticing promise of love, unknowing of the tragedy that looms ahe...
Remember When
1974
Writer
An uncle's (Jack Warden) memories give strength to a New England family with four sons fighting in World War II.
Class of '44
1973
Writer
During the last years of World War II, Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie are coming of age. They went their separate ways when they graduated from high school ...
Summer of '42
1971
Writer
Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Herm...
Watermelon Man
1970
Writer
A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is ...
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
1969
Writer
Heironymus Merkin is an internationally successful singer approaching middle age who retells his life story in a series of production numbers on a sea...
Sweet November
1968
Writer
A woman refuses to let her romances last longer than one month.
Follow That Dream
1962
Original Story
When the Kwimper family car runs out of fuel on a new Florida highway and an officious state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his...