Rich Man, Poor Man Movie Review 1976

Classic TV miniseries covers 20 (sometimes bitter) years in the lives of the two Jordache brothers. It's 1945 in quiet Port Phillip, New York with embittered German baker Axel (Asner), his unfulfilled wife Mary (McGuire), and sons Tom (Nolte) and Rudy (Strauss). Tom is wild and irresponsible, Rudy is ambitious and college-bound, and Julie Prescott (Blakely), Rudy's girl, overshadows both their lives. Based on the novel by Irwin Shaw. The first series contained 12 episodes. A second series of 21 episodes primarily followed the tribulations of the next generation, although Strauss returned as Rudy.

Distribution

Columbia House Video Library, 1400 N. Fruitridge Ave., Terre Haute, IN 47811-0100, Toll-free: 800-457-0866, Email: customerservice@columbiahouse.com, URL: http://www.columbiahouse.com

Available on VHS
Running time 720 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Brothers & Sisters, Postwar, Period Piece: 20th Century

Cast

Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely, Ed Asner, Dorothy McGuire, Bill Bixby, Robert Reed, Ray Milland, Kim Darby, Talia Shire, Lawrence Pressman, Kay Lenz

Music

Alex North

Producer

Jon Epstein, Harve Bennett, Universal Television