Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Ernest Hemingway's semi-autobiographical "Nick Adams stories" formed the basis for this epic-length 1962 tribute to the master storyteller, with Richard Beymer ('West Side Story') as Nick and, amidst a star-studded supporting cast, Paul Newman in a Golden Globe nominated performance as the punch-drunk ex-prizefighter known as The Battler.
Before Hemingway could write about life, he had to live it to the fullest - as does his fictional persona, the teenager Nick Adams (Beymer), who leaves his Michigan lake country home on foot in 1916 to learn about life and love and death. Nick's journey of discovery commences with run-ins with a brutal train brakeman and the half crazed Battler (Newman); takes him to New York and then finally to World War I and Europe, where he receives his baptism of fire at the Italian front and finds romance with a hospital nurse, Rosanna (Susan Strasberg).
Ricardo Montalban, Eli Wallach, Diane Baker, Dan Dailey, Jessica Tandy and Arthur Kennedy give vivid performances in this Golden Globe nominee for Best Motion Picture - Drama, a story of adventure, of love, and of one man maturing through suffering as learns the laws of life.
Copyright of 20th Century Fox
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Comment by eHemingway.com on May 14, 2009 at 9:46am -
Hi Judy,
It's definitely a hard to find dvd, but there is one copy for sale on Amazon for a whopping 49.95! Hulu used to have the entire movie on their site, but then it expired and now all they have is the trailer that is on this page.
If I track any more copies down I'll let you know.
Mark
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Comment by Judy Henn on May 14, 2009 at 12:00am - This is very exciting to see - the movie trailer for what I thought was a long-forgotten film. Any clues how to buy the complete flim on DVD?
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