Main Cast: John Crosby, Steven Hill, William Smithers, Eli Wallach, Olive Deering
Release Year: 1957
Run Time: 60 minutes
Plot
One of the better entries in the short-lived CBS Sunday-afternoon anthology The Seven Lively Arts, "The World of Nick Adams" was adapted by A.E. Hotchner from five different Ernest Hemingway short stories: "The End of Something," " "Three Day Blow," "The Light of the World," "The Battler," "Now I Lay Me." A young Steven Hill (Mission: Impossible, Law & Order) stars as Hemingway's youthful alter ego Nick Adams, who while recuperating from wounds received in WWI recalls the past events of his life: Running away from home, making valuable friends and dangerous enemies, learning how to discern phoniness in the self-righteous and nobility in the downtrodden, etc. In his first assignment for TV, composer Aaron Copland provides the special's incidental music. Newspaper columnist John Crosby serves as host. Much of The World of Nick Adams was later incorporated in the 1962 theatrical feature Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
