Youth Takes a Fling(1938)

movie - first aired/released 1938-09-22 - 77 min - audience 5.5

Romance, Comedy

Directed by Archie Mayo

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.