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Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
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Wikipedia article
'Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man' is a 1962 American adventure film directed by Martin Ritt based on Ernest Hemingway's semi-autobiographical character Nick Adams, and featuring Richard Beymer as Adams. A.E. Hotchner wrote the screenplay, originally calling the film 'Ernest Hemingway's "Young Man"'. The cast includes Diane Baker, Jessica Tandy, Ricardo Montalbn, Eli Wallach, Arthur Kennedy and Paul Newman. It was released in July 1962.Oliver, Charles (1999). 'Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work'. New York: Checkmark Publishing. . p. 150
Plot
Nick Adams is a young, restless man in rural Michigan who wants a good life and to see the world. He leaves his domineering mother and noble but weak physician father on a cross country trip. In his ramblings he encounters a punch-drunk boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and a burlesque show promoter. Nick applies to be a reporter for a newspaper in New York City, but is told he lacks experience. While working at a catered banquet, he hears a speech by a beautiful woman soliciting volunteer ambulance drivers for the Italian Army in World War I, and impulsively signs up. On arrival, he is assigned a bilingual companion to help him, who cannot believe that Nick would volunteer for such a posting. They experience battlefield horrors, Nick is injured, and falls in love with his nurse, who then falls ill herself and dies at the moment they are taking their bedside wedding vows. Finally returning home to his family, he is stunned to hear that his father had died after worrying about Nick.
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Production
Jerry Wald and A. E. Hotchner approached Hemingway seeking the rights to either 'Across the River and Into the Trees' or the Nick Adams stories. Hemingway did not want to sell rights to his novel and was only keen on selling one Nick Adams story. Hotchner pitched to buy the rights for 10 of the 19 stories. Hemingway agreed provided certain conditions were met, including ensuring that "Nick was a good boy."
Jerry Wald said he and director Martin Ritt agreed that Richard Beymer was "the young actor I think stands the best chance of being the next Gary Cooper."
Filming started 25 September 1961 in Mellen, Wisconsin and wound up in 22 January in Verona, Italy. Interiors were supposed to be shot at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, but that facility was taken up by the production of 'Cleopatra' (1963), forcing 'Hemingway's' to finish its studio work back in the United States.Steinhart, Daniel. (2019). 'Runaway Hollywood: Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting'. University of California Press. p. 86. .
Jerry Wald died just before the film was released.
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