Youth Takes a Fling is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Joel McCrea.
Youth Takes a Fling | |
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Directed by | Archie Mayo |
Written by | Myles Connolly (writer) |
Produced by | Joe Pasternak |
Cinematography | Rudolph Maté |
Edited by | Philip Cahn |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $676,000[1] |
One of Leeds relatively few films, both she and McCrea were loaned to Universal from Samuel Goldwyn.
Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea, moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor. He 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.