Irwin Shaw

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.

Works

From 180 & Taller

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. But he can only dream of having a 180sm beauty by his side. One day he decides to go on a date with one of his 180sm tall Fitness-Club members, after calling almost all the women he doesn't get a single acceptation : each of them has her own problems with men. However, accidentally it happens that way that he happens to be on a date with all of his dream ladies...

Release Date: 2005-03-25

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 16

Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules

Three short stories about women & men relationship.

Release Date: 1991-08-18

Department: Writing

Job: Short Story

Vote Count: 6

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

Release Date: 1985-03-03

Character: Self

Vote Count: 12

The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories

Tom Beauchurch , a successful New England lawyer, takes his wife Ginette to Paris for a second honeymoon. It is a Paris in the throes of the Algerian crisis; a crisis which soon threatens the very foundations of their marriage. A New York bartender refuses to lower his standards even when his boss threatens to sack him. Michael Loomis runs into trouble when he confesses to his beautiful young wife that he can't help eyeing the girls in their summer dresses ...

Release Date: 1982-06-11

Department: Writing

Job: Book

Rich Man, Poor Man...

An examination of the trials and tribulations of the Jordache family, from the period following World War II to the late 1960s.

Release Date: 1982-06-06

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 8

Rich Man, Poor Man...

Release Date: 1982-06-06

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 3

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

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

Department: Writing

Job: Short Story

The Top of the Hill

Michael Stone is a rising company executive who decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill a fantasy to be a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsled team and partake in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.

Release Date: 1980-02-06

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Beggarman, Thief

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.

Release Date: 1979-11-26

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 1

Evening in Byzantium

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. Before long, Craig becomes concerned that a shocking act of real-life terrorism already may be underway. Meanwhile, radical actor Bret Easton works in cahoots with a group of extremists to coordinate the hijacking of a trio of passenger planes in a devastating, multi-city nuclear attack.

Release Date: 1978-08-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

Weekly series spun off from the miniseries.

Release Date: 1976-09-21

Department: Writing

Job: Characters

Episode Count: 22

Vote Count: 8

Rich Man, Poor Man

Based on the best-selling 1969 novel by Irwin Shaw, the series follows the divergent career courses of the impoverished German American Jordache brothers.

Release Date: 1976-02-01

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Episode Count: 12

Vote Count: 30

Three

Two college friends, traveling in Europe, find themselves rivals for the attentions of a mysterious woman.

Release Date: 1969-12-23

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 9

Bury the Dead

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. Each rises from a mass nameless grave to express his anguish.

Release Date: 1969-11-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

In the French Style

A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring her back.

Release Date: 1963-09-18

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 7

Two Weeks in Another Town

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.

Release Date: 1962-08-17

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 53

The Big Gamble

Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation is that his cousin Samuel, a timid bank clerk, accompany Vic and his Corsican bride, Marie, to Africa and protect the family fortune.

Release Date: 1961-07-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 6

The Young Lions

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

Release Date: 1958-04-02

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 133

Desire Under the Elms

Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Hating him, and sharing his greed, are the sons of two wives Cabot has overworked into early graves. Most bitter is Eben, whose mother had owned most of the farm, and who feels who should be sole heir. When the old man brings home a new wife, Anna, she becomes a fierce contender to inherit the farm. Two of the sons leave when Eben gives them the fare in return for their shares of the farm. Meanwhile, Anna tries to cause some sparks by rubbing up against Eben.

Release Date: 1958-03-12

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 20

This Angry Age

Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice plantation. However the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude.

Release Date: 1957-10-31

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 6

Tip on a Dead Jockey

Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.

Release Date: 1957-09-06

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 7

Fire Down Below

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. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.

Release Date: 1957-05-30

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 28

Ulysses

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.

Release Date: 1954-10-06

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 182

Act of Love

An American soldier romances a beautiful Parisian during the final days of World War II.

Release Date: 1953-12-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 7

I Want You

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. WWII veteran Martin Greer wants to re-enlist, much to the dismay of his wife Nancy.

Release Date: 1951-12-22

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 5

Easy Living

A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.

Release Date: 1949-10-08

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 18

Take One False Step

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.

Release Date: 1949-08-14

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 16

Commandos Strike at Dawn

A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.

Release Date: 1942-12-30

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 20

The Talk of the Town

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.

Release Date: 1942-08-20

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 105

Out of the Fog

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.

Release Date: 1941-06-14

Department: Writing

Job: Theatre Play

Vote Count: 30

The Big Game

A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.

Release Date: 1936-10-09

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 4