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Adventures of a Young Man

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Hemingway's Nick Adams (Richard Beymer) hits the road, meets a boxer (Paul Newman) and drives an ambulance in World War I France.
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Variety Staff Variety 02/23/2012
While the film has been executed with concern, integrity and respect for the pen from which it flows, it has a disquieting tendency to oscillate between flashes of artistry and truth and interludes of mechanics and melodramatics. Go to Full Review Pauline Kael Film Quarterly 09/11/2023
I think it is a disgrace and a moral offense to take short stories by Hemingway and a piece of a novel and combine them with incidents from his life in a sentimental pastiche which is then presented as some sort of biographical film. Go to Full Review Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine 10/07/2019
There are a few virtuoso cameos, notably Paul Newman's sketch of a punchdrunk fighter, but Richard Beymer is too pale and pretty to be convincing in the central role. Go to Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 06/26/2011
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Based on Hemingway's short stories, Martin Ritt's chronicle is long, rambling, disappointing film in which Richard Beymer is miscast as the young novelist. Go to Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 03/04/2011
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Overlong, sappy and rambling. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Steve D 07/19/2020 Only a few cameos give it any life. See more 07/18/2011 This movie has long been a guilty pleasure of mine. It's an all-star cast, and even through Richard Beymer is not the strongest of dramatic actors, he handles the rold well enough. This is made up of Heminway short stories involving Nick Adams, although it seems apparent one of those stories was the basis for "A Farewell to Arms." See more 06/05/2010 Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) -- [7.0] -- Richard Beymer (West Side Story) stars as Hemingway's alter-ego, a young man coming of age in the early 1900s. With beautiful scenery of rural Michigan and Franz Waxman's wistful score, the film is unabashedly romantic and nostalgic -- it transports you to a time and place you're reluctant to leave. But as Beymer sets off to sew his wild oats, the narrative suffers the fate of nearly all episodic storylines. Some of the stories are better than others. Paul Newman has the film's standout supporting performance as a retired prizefighter who's taken one too many blows to the head. Ricardo Montalban and Eli Wallach are also memorable as World War I comrades. My favorite scene is one where Montalban and Wallach get Beymer drunk in his hospital bed. The impressive cast also includes Arthur Kennedy and Jessica Tandy. See more Read all reviews
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Martin Ritt

Director

Richard Beymer

Nick Adams

Paul Newman

The Battler

Diane Baker

Carolyn

Corinne Calvet

Contessa

Fred Clark

Mr. Turner

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Movie Info

Synopsis Hemingway's Nick Adams (Richard Beymer) hits the road, meets a boxer (Paul Newman) and drives an ambulance in World War I France.
Director
Martin Ritt
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 11, 2010
Runtime
2h 25m
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