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.

• John GlenmeisterDirector
• Nick HavingaDirector
• Kenneth CavanderWriter
• Elizabeth SwadosOriginal Music Composer

• Jeff BridgesMichael Loomis
• Carol KaneFrances Loomis
• Charles DurningMcMahon
• Brian DennehyGrimmet
• Claudine AugerGinette Beauchurch
• Bob ShermanTom Beauchurch
• Pierre SantiniClaude Morin