Overview - Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

Overview

Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.

Cast

• Name: Richard Beymer

  Character: Nick Adams

  Popularity: 1.5445

  

• Name: Diane Baker

  Character: Carolyn

  Popularity: 2.213

  

• Name: Corinne Calvet

  Character: Contessa

  Popularity: 0.9795

  

• Name: Fred Clark

  Character: Mr. Turner

  Popularity: 1.4119

  

• Name: Dan Dailey

  Character: Billy Campbell

  Popularity: 1.2902

  

• Name: James Dunn

  Character: Telegrapher

  Popularity: 1.3925

  

• Name: Juano Hernández

  Character: Bugs

  Popularity: 1.269

  

• Name: Arthur Kennedy

  Character: Dr. Henry Adams

  Popularity: 1.5823