Irwin Shaw Trailers
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Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for two of his novels: The Young Lions (1948), about the fate of three soldiers during World War II, which was made into a film of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), about the fate of two brothers and a sister in the post-World War II decades,[1] which in 1976 was made into a popular miniseries starring Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, and Susan Blakely.
Most Popular Irwin Shaw Trailers
Total trailers found: 28
26 November 1979
In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
06 June 1982
An examination of the trials and tribulations of the Jordache family, from the period following World War II to the late 1960s.
06 October 1954
A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.
03 March 1985
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
08 October 1949
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
11 June 1982
Tom Beauchurch , a successful New England lawyer, takes his wife Ginette to Paris for a second honeymoon.
22 December 1951
The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people.
09 October 1936
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
23 December 1969
Two college friends, traveling in Europe, find themselves rivals for the attentions of a mysterious woman.
18 September 1963
A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.
25 July 1961
Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda.
02 April 1958
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
14 August 1978
While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about a terrorist plot.
01 June 1981
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.
14 August 1949
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.
20 August 1942
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
25 March 2005
Administrator of a Fitness-Club Kostya thinks that having a woman taller than 180sm by a man's side is a symbol of his prosperity and success.
30 December 1942
A gentle widower with a small daughter finds his peaceful small rural village suddenly invaded by Nazis and, enraged in short order by their atrocities, becomes the leader of an aggressive underground movement.
12 March 1958
Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion.
17 August 1962
After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
30 May 1957
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island.
14 June 1941
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
18 August 1991
Three short stories about women & men relationship.
31 October 1957
20-year-old Joseph and his 16-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother.
17 December 1953
While on holiday on the French Riviera, former soldier Robert Teller recounts his time in WWII-era France, where he meets and falls in love with a poor girl named Lise.
06 September 1957
Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.
10 November 1969
An expressionist and anti-war drama by the American playwright Irwin Shaw. It dramatizes the refusal of six dead soldiers during an unspecified war—who represent a cross-section of American society—to be buried.
26 July 1973
A married couple treat themselves to a day out just by themselves. But the occasion is ruined by the husband's roving eye.
