Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man

This article is about the 1962 film. For the 1939 novel, see Adventures of a Young Man.

Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Martin Ritt
Produced by	Jerry Wald
Screenplay by	A.E. Hotchner
Based on	The Nick Adams Stories
Starring	Richard Beymer
Music by	Franz Waxman
Cinematography	Lee Garmes
Edited by	Hugh S. Fowler
Distributed by	Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release dates	1962 (1962)
Running time	145 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4.1 million^[1]

Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man is a 1962 20th Century Fox 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 Montalban, Eli Wallach, Arthur Kennedy, and Paul Newman. The 145 minute-long film was released in July 1962.^[2]

Plot

Nick Adams is a young, restless man who wants a good life and to see the world. Though he is told it is not worth the attempt, he decides to go away from his midwestern home. Along the way, he encounters numerous people and later joins the Italian army to fight the Germans in World War I, where he falls in love.

Cast

Richard Beymer as Nick Adams
Diane Baker as Carolyn
Corinne Calvet as Contessa
Fred Clark as Mr. Turner
Dan Dailey as Billy Campbell
James Dunn as Telegrapher
Juano Hernández as Bugs
Arthur Kennedy as Dr. Adams
Ricardo Montalbán as Major Padula
Paul Newman as The Battler
Susan Strasberg as Rosanna
Jessica Tandy as Mrs. Adams
Eli Wallach as John
Edward Binns as Brakeman
Philip Bourneuf as City Editor
Tullio Carminati as Rosanna's Father
Marc Cavell as Eddy Boulton
Charles Fredericks as Mayor
Simon Oakland as Joe Boulton
Michael J. Pollard as George
Whit Bissell as Ludstrum
Lillian Adams as Indian Woman
Walter Baldwin as Conductor
Laura Cornell as Headwaiter
Laura Cornell as Burlesque Queen
Miriam Golden as Indian Mid-Wife
Pitt Herbert as Bartender
Pat Hogan as Billy Tabeshaw
Baruch Lumet as Morris
Burt Mustin as Old Soldier
Sherry Staiger as Burlesque Queen
Sharon Tate as Burlesque Queen
Alfredo Varelli as Father Ben
Mel Welles as Italian Sergeant

References

↑ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p253
↑ Oliver, Charles (1999). Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work. New York: Checkmark Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8160-3467-3. p. 150

External links

Ernest Hemingway

Bibliography

Novels

The Torrents of Spring (1926)
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
To Have and Have Not (1937)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Non-fiction

Death in the Afternoon (1932)
Green Hills of Africa (1935)

Posthumous

Short stories

"Indian Camp" (1925)
"The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" (1925)
"The End of Something" (1925)
"The Three-Day Blow" (1925)
"The Battler" (1925)
"A Very Short Story" (1925)
"Soldier's Home" (1925)
"The Revolutionist" (1925)
"Mr. and Mrs. Elliot" (1925)
"Cat in the Rain" (1925)
"Out of Season" (1925)
"Cross Country Snow" (1925)
"My Old Man" (1925)
"Big Two-Hearted River" (1925)
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926)
"A Canary for One" (1926)
"Fifty Grand" (1927)
"Hills Like White Elephants" (1927)
"The Killers" (1927)
"The Undefeated" (1927)
"Che Ti Dice La Patria?" (1927)
"In Another Country" (1927)
"On the Quai at Smyrna" (1930)
"Fathers and Sons" (1932)
"A Day's Wait" (1933)
"The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (1933)
"A Way You'll Never Be" (1933)
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936)
"The Capital of the World" (1936)
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936)

Short story
collections

Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
In Our Time (1925)
Men Without Women (1927)
Winner Take Nothing (1933)
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1961)
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)
The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories (1995)

Story fragments

"On Writing"

Poetry

88 Poems (1979)
Complete Poems

Letters and
journalism

Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981)
Dateline: Toronto (1985)
The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway (2011)

Adaptations

The Sun Also Rises	1957 film 1984 film Opera The Select (The Sun Also Rises) Ballet

"The Killers"	1946 film 1956 film 1964 film Bukowski short story

A Farewell to Arms	1932 film 1957 film 1966 TV series

To Have and Have Not	1944 film The Breaking Point (1950) The Gun Runners (1958) Captain Khorshid (1987)

For Whom the Bell Tolls	1943 film 1965 TV series Metallica song

The Old Man and the Sea	1958 film 1990 miniseries 1999 film

Other film adaptations	The Macomber Affair (1947) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) Islands in the Stream (1977)