Young Man's Fancy (1939)
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
- Date of release
- 1939-07-31
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Director
- Robert Stevenson
Casting
- Griffith Jones — Lord Alban
- Anna Lee — Ada
- Seymour Hicks — Duke of Beaumont
- Billy Bennett — Capt. Boumphray
- Edward Rigby — Gray
- Francis L. Sullivan — Blackbeard, Vincent St George
- Martita Hunt — Duchess of Beaumont
- Meriel Forbes — Miss Crowther
- Felix Aylmer — Sir Caleb Crowther
- Raymond Aimos — Tramp
- Phyllis Monkman — Esme
- Morton Selten — Mr. Fothergill
Interesting facts
Young Man's Fancy is a 1939 British historical comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Anna Lee, Griffith Jones, and Seymour Hicks. The screenplay concerns an aristocratic Englishman who is unhappily engaged to a brewery heiress but meets Ada, an Irish human cannonball, during a visit to a music hall and falls in love with her. Together they are trapped in Paris during the Siege of Paris (1870-1871).
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