Irwin Shaw

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.

  • Title: Irwin Shaw
  • Popularity: 2.24
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1913-02-27
  • Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Ирвин Шоу
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Irwin Shaw Movies

  • 1985
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    George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

    George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

    5.364 1985 HD

    Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

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  • 1949
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    Take One False Step

    Take One False Step

    5.4 1949 HD

    Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...

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  • 1949
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    Take One False Step

    Take One False Step

    5.4 1949 HD

    Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...

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  • 1942
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    The Talk of the Town

    The Talk of the Town

    7.3 1942 HD

    Wrongfully jailed for arson, political activist Leopold Dilg escapes and takes refuge at the house of his childhood friend, Nora, unaware that she...

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  • 1941
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    Out of the Fog

    Out of the Fog

    6.3 1941 HD

    A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves...

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  • 1958
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    The Young Lions

    The Young Lions

    6.762 1958 HD

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

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  • 1991
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    Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules

    Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules

    4 1991 HD

    Three short stories about women & men relationship.

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  • 1962
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    Two Weeks in Another Town

    Two Weeks in Another Town

    5.9 1962 HD

    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...

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  • 1958
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    Desire Under the Elms

    Desire Under the Elms

    6.7 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1949
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    Easy Living

    Easy Living

    5.9 1949 HD

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

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  • 1957
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    Tip on a Dead Jockey

    Tip on a Dead Jockey

    6.1 1957 HD

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

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  • 1953
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    Act of Love

    Act of Love

    6.8 1953 HD

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

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  • 1969
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    Bury the Dead

    Bury the Dead

    1 1969 HD

    An expressionist and anti-war drama by the American playwright Irwin Shaw. It dramatizes the refusal of six dead soldiers during an unspecified...

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  • 1936
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    The Big Game

    The Big Game

    5.8 1936 HD

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

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  • 2005
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    From 180 & Taller

    From 180 & Taller

    3.9 2005 HD

    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...

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  • 1961
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    The Big Gamble

    The Big Gamble

    5.667 1961 HD

    Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation...

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  • 1954
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    Ulysses

    Ulysses

    6.457 1954 HD

    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.

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  • 1951
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    I Want You

    I Want You

    5.2 1951 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Rich Man, Poor Man...

    Rich Man, Poor Man...

    4.25 1982 HD

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

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  • 1969
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    Three

    Three

    5 1969 HD

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

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  • 1942
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    Commandos Strike at Dawn

    Commandos Strike at Dawn

    5.3 1942 HD

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

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  • 1957
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    Fire Down Below

    Fire Down Below

    5.8 1957 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    In the French Style

    In the French Style

    5.5 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    In the French Style

    In the French Style

    5.5 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    In the French Style

    In the French Style

    5.5 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    This Angry Age

    This Angry Age

    5.9 1957 HD

    Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed...

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  • 1979
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    Beggarman, Thief

    Beggarman, Thief

    6 1979 HD

    In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the...

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  • 1980
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    The Top of the Hill

    The Top of the Hill

    1 1980 HD

    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...

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  • 1981
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    The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

    The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

    1 1981 HD

    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...

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  • 1978
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    Evening in Byzantium

    Evening in Byzantium

    1 1978 HD

    While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about...

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  • 1970
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    7.9 1970 HD

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

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  • 1970
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    6.7 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    8.429 1970 HD

    Weekly series spun off from the miniseries.

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  • 1970
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    7.9 1970 HD

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

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  • 1970
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    8.429 1970 HD

    Weekly series spun off from the miniseries.

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