Any old movie buffs in here?

[Tweak]

Hey old movie fans, got a question for ya.

Been looking for a movie I saw several years ago for, well, several years.

I could almost swear it was a screen play written and directed by Earnest Hemingway, but upon further investigation it seems as if he neither wrote nor directed ANY movies, ever.

The movie has something like "The Boxer" or "Earnest Hemingway's, The boxer" in the tittle but I am almost sure his name is not mentioned therein.

Anyhow, the movie is about an old man who lives in a retirement home and is friends with two other debilitated inpatients. The old man one year, on his birthday hears from a long ostracized son who sends him a multicolored, double rimmed baseball cap as a present. The old man ends up getting into a fight with his best friend and they stop talking to each other, ultimately the friend ends up dying of old age and the moral of the story comes into play.


Anyone have ANY idea what movie I am talking about/ i would really like to find it, but got nothing on IMDB or like sites...

Note: I actually may be completely wrong about the tittle guys, it has been a long time and I might have confused it. I do know, however that one of the main stars from an old movie "Cocoon" plays a pivitol role in the flick.

Any help here would be great fellas, I know some of you have amazing ways of pulling things out of Google's tight little grasp that astound me sometimes.

 

[DaveM]

The killers (1946) Based on a story by E Hemmingway, directed by Robert Siodmak.

Dave

 

[Tweak]

Are you sure? I read on a book site that one was about an old man in a diner or something...


Oh, to be a bit more specific, a synopsis of the short story.

One winter evening, around dusk, while he is sitting at the end of a counter and talking to George, the manager of a diner in Summit, Illinois, a small town south of Chicago, Nick Adams watches two over-dressed strangers in black (Al and Max) enter the diner. After complaining about the serving schedule, the two men order dinner, joking sarcastically about George and Nick being a couple of dumb country boys.

Finishing his meal, Al orders Nick and Sam, the Black cook, to the kitchen, where he ties them up. Meanwhile, Max boasts to George that he and Al have been hired to kill Ole Andreson, an aging boxer, who, they’ve heard, eats dinner there every night.

When the boxer fails to show up in the diner, Al and Max leave, and George hurries to untie Nick and Sam. He then suggests that Nick warn Andreson, who lives in a nearby boarding house.

When the boxer hears about Al and Max’s plan to kill him, he’s unconcerned; he’s tired, he says, of running. Nick leaves and returns to the diner, where he tells George and Sam that he’s leaving Summit because he can’t bear to think about a man waiting, passively, to be killed by a couple of hired killers.


Of course, maybe the one you are thinking is a very drastic remake of this story, I dunno, but I WILL check it out, thanks for the input

EDIT: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038669/

From what this is saying I think this is another one entirely...

 

[Tweak]

Found it! It's called: Wrestling Earnest Hemingway, check the movie sites for a good finds guys, it really is a good movie.

 

[neobart]

When you said old movie buffs, I was looking in the 50's and 60's. I still don't think 92 was that long ago.

 

[Clintd]

Save Ferris!!

 

[DaveM]

Found out yet Tweak ?

Dave