Give Us Wings
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| Directed by | Charles Lamont |
| Produced by | Ken Goldsmith (associate producer) |
| Written by |
Arthur T. Horman (screenplay) Robert Lee Johnson (screenplay) Eliot Gibbons (story) |
| Starring |
Billy Halop Huntz Hall Gabriel Dell Bernard Punsly Bobby Jordan Shemp Howard |
| Music by |
Charles Previn (musical director) H.J. Salter (conductor) Frank Skinner (composer: stock music) Paul Van Loan (composer: stock music) |
| Cinematography | John Boyle |
| Edited by | Frank Gross |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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62 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Give Us Wings (1940) is a Universal film starring the Dead End Kids and the Little Tough Guys.
The Dead End Kids work as airplane mechanics in the National Youth Administration Work Program plant. Feeling that they have enough knowledge of planes, they feel the urge to want to become pilots. The boys are hired by crop dusting operator Arnold Carter to become pilots. Upon being hired, York (Carter's manager) feels that the boys are far too inexperienced to fly, and assigns them to ground work. When Carter's company falls behind in their contracts, the Dead End Kids are forced to learn the ropes of flying. Eventually, York agrees that all of the boys are ready to become pilots,
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