Young Man with a Horn [1950]

Young Man with a Horn [1950]

112 min, Black & White



Kirk Douglas as Rick Martin

Lauren Bacall as Amy North

Doris Day as Jo Jordan

Hoagy Carmichael as Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby

Juano Hernandez as Art Hazzard



Featuring the golden trumpet of Harry James



As a boy, orphan and dropout Rick Martin finds his only outlet in music. Through chance-met black jazzman Art Hazzard, he develops into a great trumpeter...too great for jazz-hating Jack Chandler, leader of the dance band he joins. But before long he's in a better big band, thanks to the interest of sweet singer Jo Jordan, who alas introduces him to her slinky, rich, highly neurotic friend Amy North. Amy's inconsistent ways soon make Rick a virtual basket case. Is he washed up, or will he find that elusive high note his trumpet won't play? Based on the life of jazz great Bix Beiderbecke.