Give Us Wings (1940)
1h 2m
Running Time
December 20, 1940Release Date
Give Us Wings (1940)
1h 2m
Running Time
December 20, 1940Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.
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Cast & Crew.
Billy Halop
Tom
Huntz Hall
Pig
Gabriel Dell
String
Bobby Jordan
Rap
Bernard Punsly
Ape
Charles Lamont
Director
Wallace Ford
Mr. York
Arthur T. Horman
Writer
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Give Us Wings is a 1940 Universal comedic film starring the Dead End Kids and the Little Tough Guys. Several members of the casts of those series were also featured in "The East Side Kids" films.
In the years before World War II, the United States government encouraged Hollywood studios to produce films that would encourage youth to join the resurgent armed forces, especially the U.S. Army Air Corps. Give Us Wings joined 20,000 Men a Year (1939), I Wanted Wings (1941), Flying Cadets (1941) and others of that genre, as a patriotic "flag-waver".