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Youth Takes a Fling

Youth Takes a Fling

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 22, 1938

Runtime

1h 17m

Genres

Romance, Comedy

User Score

10%

Original Title

Youth Takes a Fling

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Director

Archie Mayo

Description

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.