Hemingways Adventures of a Young Man (1962)

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 crosscountry journey He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punchdrunk exboxer 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