Young Man With A Horn

US Release Date: 09 February 1950

• Kirk Douglas — Rick Martin

• Lauren Bacall — Amy North

• Doris Day — Jo Jordan

• Hoagy Carmichael — Willie ‘Smoke’ Willoughby

The film’s character Rick Martin is loosely based on the jazz trumpeter Bix Biederbecke. Rick’s obsessive desire to play jazz and volatile personality makes for trouble – especially after his band asks him to restrict his repertoire to what they want to play!

Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Producer(s): Jerry Wald
Studio: Warner Bros. (USA)
Genre: Biography/Drama/Musical/Romance
Format: Black and White
Alternate Title: This film was also known as Young Man Of Music (UK) & Young Man With A Trumpet (Australia)