Comedy · United States of America · 1927 · 55m

Two Flaming Youths

Director

Cast

W.C. Fields as Gabby Gilfoil Chester Conklin as Sheriff Ben Holden Mary Brian as Mary Gilfoil Jack Luden as Tony Holden George Irving as Simeon Trott Cissy Fitzgerald as Madge Malarkey

Crew

Percy Heath — Story

Tagline

You'll Laugh and Laugh and Then Laugh Some More at the Two Flaming Youths

Synopsis

Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some money. Gilfoil is mistaken for the wanted man Slippery Sawtelle. Neither suitor gets Malarkey but manage to take her husband (wealthy Simeon Trott) for a bundle.

Mood & Themes

sheriff carnival

Key Collaborators

John Waters Director Percy Heath Story

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