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Youth Takes a Fling

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Original title

Youth Takes a Fling

Year

1938

Running time

77 min.

Country

United States

Director

Archie Mayo

Screenwriter

Myles Connolly. Story: Eliot Gibbons

Cast

Music

Charles Henderson, Charles Previn, Frank Skinner

Cinematography

Rudolph Maté (B&W)

Producer

Universal Pictures. Distributor: Universal Pictures

Genre

Comedy

Synopsis

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.

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Youth Takes a Fling

1938

Archie Mayo