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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A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.

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The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

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While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops ro...

Claire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. De...

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For being unable to find any decent job, an unconventional young man of working-class background giv...

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Three about-to-be-newlywed chums are taken to Australia for a photoshoot

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A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.