''Flame of Youth'' is a 1949 American

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directed by

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and written by Robert Libott and Frank Burt. The film stars

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, Ray McDonald,

Danny Sue Nolan Danny Sue Nolan (February 28, 1923 – August 3, 2002) was an American film actress. She made approximately 35 film and television appearances between 1949 and 1988 and had a starring role in a 1949 film, '' Flame of Youth''. She was somet ...

, Tony Barrett, Carol Brannon and Anita Carrell. The film was released on September 22, 1949, by

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Plot

After his daughter, nicknamed Jerry, is arrested for stealing hubcaps off cars, naive George Briggs picks her up at jail. She immediately goes to gangster Cicero Coletti to get her cut of the stolen loot, quarreling with Coletti's sister, Lila. Jerry pays her dad's tab when bookie Deke Edwards demands he pay up or else. She ignores sister Catherine's pleas to get out of petty crime and concentrate on becoming a fashion model instead. Instead, she tries to rob the cash from a junkyard, as does Lila, who is shot by the owner. Jerry escapes, ripping her pants on a wire fence. Catherine repays the stolen loot to the junkyard's owner, but George inadvertently identifies the torn pants as hers when the police come to investigate. Catherine and Jerry are both placed under arrest. Deke shoots an innocent friend of Jerry, who finally sees the error of her ways as she is taken to jail.

Cast

as Lila Coletti *Ray McDonald as Bill Crawford *

as Geraldine 'Jerry' Briggs *Tony Barrett as Deke Edwards *Carol Brannon as Catherine Briggs *Anita Carrell as Barb Spranklin *Michael Carr as Cicero Coletti * Don Beddoe as George Briggs *

Denver Pyle Denver Dell Pyle (May 11, 1920 – December 25, 1997) was an American film and television actor and director. He was well known for a number of TV roles from the 1960s through the 1980s, including his portrayal of Briscoe Darling Jr. in se ...

as Lytz *

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as Steve Miller * Arthur Walsh as Hector *

Sally Forrest Sally Forrest (born Katherine Feeney; May 28, 1928 – March 15, 2015), was an American film, stage and TV actress of the 1940s and 1950s. She studied dance from a young age and shortly out of high school was signed to a contract by Metro-Gol ...

as Miss O'Brien *Audrey Farr as Waitress *Maurice Doner as Loomis *Stephen Chase as Charles Howard *Charles Flynn as Jim Bennet

References

External links

* 1949 films American drama films 1949 drama films Republic Pictures films Films directed by R. G. Springsteen American black-and-white films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films {{1940s-drama-film-stub