A Summer Place (film) instrumental hit "Theme from "A Summer Place"", composed by Max Steiner, was used in the film as a secondary musical theme (not the main title theme) for scenes featuring Molly and Johnny. The version used in the film was recorded by Hugo Winterhalter. It was later arranged and recorded by Percy Faith and performed by his orchestra, enriching and improving on the original. In 1960, the Percy Faith version reached Number One on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart for nine consecutive weeks, a record at that time. The theme has been covered in instrumental or vocal versions by numerous other
Theme from A Summer Place comic effect when a show cuts away from a scene deemed to be too violent to display and shows peaceful images instead. More recently, the song's peaceful and relaxed theme has taken on a darker significance as it has been used to convey an eerie sense of false security in horror productions, such as the TV miniseries "Rose Red" (2002), and the films "Final Destination 3" (2006), "Dark Shadows" (2012) and "Beautiful Creatures" (2013). Theme from A Summer Place "Theme from "A Summer Place"" is a song with lyrics by Mack Discant and music by Max Steiner, written for the