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.
Unfortunately the movie Youth Takes a Fling is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Archie Mayo | Director |
| Production | Joe Pasternak | Producer |
| Writing | Myles Connolly | Screenplay |
| Writing | Eliot Gibbons | Story |
