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Youth Takes a Fling

Youth Takes a Fling

1938

XO5.5
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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.

TMDB5.5(2)XO5.5

Director: Archie Mayo

Cast: Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, Frank Jenks, Dorothea Kent, Isabel Jeans, Virginia Grey, Grant Mitchell, Henry Mollison

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