Two Flaming Youths

Two Flaming Youths

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

NR 1927 · 55 min · Comedy

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.

Directed by John Waters · Written by Percy Heath

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W.C. Fields Gabby Gilfoil
Chester Conklin Sheriff Ben Holden
Mary Brian Mary Gilfoil
Jack Luden Tony Holden
George Irving Simeon Trott
Cissy Fitzgerald Madge Malarkey
James Quinn Slippery Sawtelle
Vivian Duncan Vivian Duncan
Rosetta Duncan Rosetta Duncan
Raymond Hatton Hatton - as Beery and Hatton (uncredited)
Wallace Beery Beery - Of Berry and Hatton (uncredited)
John Aasen The Giant (uncredited)

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