Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) on Netflix
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Restless in rural Michigan, Nick Adams leaves his domineering mother and doctor father. Rejected by a New York newspaper, he becomes an ambulance driver for the Italian Army.
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Nick Adams is a restless young man in rural Michigan. He leaves his domineering mother and his father, a physician, for a cross-country journey. He meets a punch-drunk boxer, a telegrapher and a promoter of a burlesque show. A New York newspaper rejects him for a reporting job. At a banquet he hears a woman appeal for ambulance volunteers for the Italian army in the First World War, and he signs up. Overseas he is paired with a bilingual companion, and the two witness battlefield horrors. Nick is wounded and a nurse tends him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Ernest Hemingway did not want to sell the rights to his novel and was keen to sell only one Nick Adams story; after A. E. Hotchner pitched for 10 of the 19 stories, Hemingway agreed on the condition that "Nick was a good boy."
- Screenwriter A. E. Hotchner delivered the finished script two weeks before Ernest Hemingway, the author whose Nick Adams stories the film adapts, died.
- Interiors were meant to be shot at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, but the facility was taken over by the production of Cleopatra (1963), forcing the film's studio work to be finished in the United States.
