Youth Takes a Fling
1938 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
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.
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast Joel McCrea · Andrea Leeds · Frank Jenks · Dorothea Kent · Isabel Jeans · Virginia Grey · Grant Mitchell · Henry Mollison · Brandon Tynan · Oscar O’Shea · Granville Bates · Marion Martin · Olaf Hytten · Willie Best · Arthur Housman · John Sheehan · Chester Clute · Wade Boteler · Tom Dugan · Eddie Acuff
Soundtrack Charles Henderson · Charles Previn · Frank Skinner
Screenplay Myles Connolly · Eliot Gibbons
Cinematography Rudolph Maté
Original title Youth Takes a Fling
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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