The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

1981 · 90 min · Drama

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.

Directed by Nick Havinga · Written by Kenneth Cavander

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Jeff Bridges Michael Loomis
Carol Kane Frances Loomis
Charles Durning McMahon
Brian Dennehy Grimmet
Claudine Auger Ginette Beauchurch
Bob Sherman Tom Beauchurch
Pierre Santini Claude Morin

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