The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories (1981)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1981-06-01
Runtime: 90 minutes
Director: Nick Havinga
Top Cast
- Jeff Bridges as Michael Loomis
- Carol Kane as Frances Loomis
- Charles Durning as McMahon
- Brian Dennehy as Grimmet
- Claudine Auger as Ginette Beauchurch
- Bob Sherman as Tom Beauchurch
- Pierre Santini as Claude Morin
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