About this title: More ambitious and expensive than ABC's first "novel for television" miniseries QB VII, the eight-episode, 12-hour Rich Man, Poor Man was the one that truly put the genre on the map, its phenomenal success in the ratings making possible the even more spectacular Roots. Adapted from the mammoth novel by Irwin Shaw, the miniseries covers the years from WWII to the 1960s, detailing the vacillating fortunes of the immigrant Jordache brothers. "Rich Man" Rudy Jordache (Peter Strauss) is determined to use his hard-earned education -- and his inherent ruthlessness -- to carve out a business and ...
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Description: Nick Nolte, Peter Strauss, Susan Blakely, Andrew Duggan, Norman Fell, Murray Hamilton, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Van Johnson,... Very good in good packaging. 1976 Run time: 648. read more
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