Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in Manhattan, and the conversation turns to the husband's fidelity. "The Monument" centers on the conflict between a popular bartender with a following in an upscale Irish bar in 1938 Manhattan and its owner, who is determined to introduce a more economical whiskey in the establishment over the barkeep's objections. In "The Man Who Married a French Wife" the influential American husband of a French woman is asked by her former lover, a former resistance fighter, to help him escape the country.
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Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known ex...
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A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a ...
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man...
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
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Tragicomic portrait of a bar's owners and patrons in a poor Montreal neighbourhood.
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Two tortured souls. Two dirty confessions. One fateful night.
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