Youth Takes a Fling (1938)

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.

Directing:
  • Archie Mayo

Writing:
  • Myles Connolly
  • Eliot Gibbons

Stars:
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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  • Country: GB
  • Language: English
  • Runtime: 77

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