The setting is around early 1900's. A young man is raised on a farm. 
His father wants him to be a farmer.  He wants to be a writer.  He
travels to the big city.  All along he writes home and tells his
family all is well.  He's rejected by many publishers because he has
no experience and one plublisher tell him to come back when he has
some experience in qwritting and in life. He runs out of money and
ends up working as a dishwasher while trying to write a story.  One
day his father arrives and he's embarrassed.  His father tells him to
come home and all will be forgotten.  He can't go home.  While walking
home he finds out that WW1 has broken out and he enlist. While
fighting in trench warfare he's wounded.  He awakes in a hospital and
finds that his leg has been amputated. He can't face reality.  A young
pretty nurse encourges him to write home.  After a while he agrees and
also he starts to fall in love with her.  One day he's in a wheel
chair on the grassy lawn writing and a german airplane sweeps down and
bombs the hospital.  He makes his way to the hospital where he finds
his love baldy injured.  She dies in his arms.  The next thing he's
traveling home.  He arrives home at the train station and the whole
town turns out.  He exits the train and ask's where's father, his
mother replys, didn't you receive my telegram?  His reply was no.  She
then said; your father died.  The last part of the movie he's sitting
on a ledge with his old home town girl friend and he say's, there's a
man in the city that said when I have some experience in life, to come
back and see him.  That's what I'm going to do.

Hello Michael5252,   

I believe the movie you recall is Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man.

Also Known As:
Adventures of a Young Man (UK) 
Ernest Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (USA) 


?The "official" title of this film is Hemingway's Adventures of a
Young Man; its screenplay is adapted from semi-autobiographical "Nick
Adams" stories written by Ernest Hemingway.?

Below you will find references where you can confirm that this is the
correct movie.


A New York Times Review provides a similar account of the film below:

?Played by Richard Beymer (West Side Story), Nick Adams is a young
Michigan boy who sets out in the early 1900s to learn about life and
to pursue a journalistic career. No sooner is he on his way than he
gets his first taste of "real life" by being thrown off a train by a
railroad agent. He attempts to secure newspaper work, but is laughed
out of the office due to his inexperience. He gains valuable insight
on the human condition while serving in the Italian army during World
War One, where (in Farewell to Arms fashion) a star-crossed romance
develops between Nick and a Red Cross nurse (Susan Strasberg). Nick
returns to America determined to pursue his destiny by writing of his
now-vast experiences.?

New York Times
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=94803


Users Comments:

?This film attempts to compile all or most of Hemingway's Nick Adams
stories into one complete whole. The effect is a coming of age story
that ends on a bitter/semi-sweet note.?

?There is a sequence that reminds one of Farewell to Arms (wounded
ambulance driver falls in love with nurse, who eventually dies in his
arms).?

?There is the overbearing, controlling, religious mother and the
anguished father (who eventually takes his own life).?

?There is the hard boiled newspaper editor, who gives sound hard boiled advice.?

IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056063/usercomments


Users Comments:

?The likable Beymer was just right as the backwoods 19 year old eager
to leave the lakeside cabin and taste the world. Finally he makes his
plunge and, after almost calling it quits, makes it to the big apple
while meeting several interesting characters along the way. His
visions of the 'new world' didn't pan out as he had dreamed and he
winds up involved in a world war. This was the pivotal event which
caused the boy to become a man giving him the underpinning to take on
a life formerly denied because of inexperience.?

IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056063/usercomments


A VHS copy of this movie is available for purchase on eBay

US $17.95  
Time left:  1 day 9 hours

HEMINGWAY'S ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN
Richard Beymer, Paul Newman, Dan Dailey, Diane Baker, Arthur Kennedy,
Jessica Tandy, Ricardo Montalban, Susan Strasberg, Eli Wallach, Fred
Clark, Michael J. Pollard
http://cgi.ebay.com/ADVENTURES-OF-A-YOUNG-MAN-Paul-Newman-Dan-Dailey_W0QQitemZ6475099187QQcategoryZ309QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem



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Similar movie - A Farewell to Arms (2 versions)
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A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Writing credits :Ernest Hemingway (novel)
Starring Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper

?A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry and Nurse
Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy
and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be
together. The film also analyses Lt. Henry's feelings on war and the
purpose of fighting.?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022879/

Available on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305052123/qid=1137855750/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-8989118-0440621?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130



The  1957 version of  "A Farewell to Arms" starring Jennifer Jones and Rock Hudson
Writing credits: Ernest Hemingway (novel)

The story of an affair between an English nurse an an American soldier
on the Italian front during World War I.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050379/

Available on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007PALN4/ref=ase_imdb-adbox/103-8989118-0440621?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130&tagActionCode=imdb-adbox



Search terms used in different combinations:
Nurse war journalist father death 1900s editor experience


I hope the information provided is helpful!

Best regards,
Bobbie7

Sound accurate.

Thank you for the tip!
--Bobbie7