Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Cast & Crew
Martin Ritt
Richard Beymer
Diane Baker
Corinne Calvet
Fred Clark
Dan Dailey
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Eager to escape his weak-willed physician father and domineering mother, 19-year-old Nick Adams leaves his Michigan home in 1917 and sets out for New York to become a writer. After a few days on the road he is thrown off a freight train by a cruel brakeman and finds himself in the company of a punch-drunk ex-prizefighter, "The Battler," and his black manager, Bugs. He soon decides to wire his father for money to return home, but a philosophical telegraph operator subtly talks him out of it; instead, Nick becomes assistant to the drunken, drug-addicted Billy Campbell, who acts as a publicist for Mr. Turner, a burlesque promoter. Turner replaces Billy with Nick until the show reaches New York, where Nick tries to become a newspaperman. Rejected by a newspaper editor for lack of experience, Nick becomes a busboy at a banquet held to recruit ambulance drivers for the Italian Army in its war against Austria and Germany. Nick signs up, and later saves the life of Major Padula, his commanding officer in Italy; later, his own life is saved when John, an Italian-American orderly, pulls him out of a bombed trench. While convalescing, Nick falls deeply in love with his nurse, Rosanna Griffi, but she is critically wounded when the hospital is bombed; he begs a priest to marry them, and the young woman dies in his arms during the ceremony. Upon discharge, Nick receives a hero's welcome as he returns to the Michigan lake country, but his celebration is ruined by the discovery that his father committed suicide during his absence. He remains with his mother until her possessiveness becomes too much for him, and then leaves home again--this time as a man, not a boy.
Director
Martin Ritt
Cast
Richard Beymer
Diane Baker
Corinne Calvet
Fred Clark
Dan Dailey
James Dunn
Juano Hernandez
Arthur Kennedy
Ricardo Montalban
Paul Newman
Susan Strasberg
Jessica Tandy
Eli Wallach
Edward Binns
Philip Bourneuf
Tullio Carminati
Marc Cavell
Charles Fredericks
Simon Oakland
Michael Pollard
Whit Bissell
Pat Hogan
Walter Baldwin
Burt Mustin
Wil Wright
Pitt Herbert
Laura Cornell
Sherry Staiger
Lillian Adams
Miriam Golding
Peter Brosso
Baruch Lumet
Crew
L. B. Abbott
Warren B. Delaplain
Eli Dunn
Don Feld
Hugh S. Fowler
Lee Garmes
Paul Groesse
A. E. Hotchner
International Film Service, Rome
Emil Kosa Jr.
Peter Nelson
Ben Nye
Robert Priestley
Leonid Raab
Walter M. Scott
Jack Martin Smith
Helen Turpin
Jerry Wald
E. Clayton Ward
Franz Waxman
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Look, what can you tell in four days?- Nick Adams
I'll tell ya what I can tell. I can tell ya that three times a day I get hungry and every twenty-four hours I get an irresistible urge to go to sleep in a bed. I don't wanna beg and I don't wanna steal. I don't want a cop tellin' me I'm a vagrant and runnin' me outta town. I'm sorry to desert you, but I'm not cut out for this kind of a life.- George
Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in Wisconsin and Rome. Also known as Adventures of a Young Man and Ernest Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man. Hemingway's short stories featuring the character "Nick Adams" were first published in the 1920s and were included in his books In Our Time (1924) and Men Without Women (1927), as well as other publications.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Summer July 18, 1962
CinemaScope
Released in United States Summer July 18, 1962
