This adaptation of Irwin Shaw's best-selling novel caught the attention of 1970's America
becoming the second highest rated show in the 1975-76 season.
The series recounted the lives of the Jordache brothers Rudy and Tom from the end of World War II to the mid-Sixties. One a wealthy businessman, the other a gangster thug, competed for the the love of Julie Prescott with one of the two eventually becoming the victor.