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.
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Plot
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 beind 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,
The Dead End Kids
- Billy Halop as Tom
- Huntz Hall as Pig
- Gabriel Dell as String
- Bernard Punsly as Ape
- Bobby Jordan as Rap
The Little Tough Guys
- Harris Berger - Bud
- Billy Benedict - Link
Additional cast
- Wallace Ford as Mr. York
- Anne Gwynne as Julie Mason
- Victor Jory as Mr. Arnold Carter
- Shemp Howard as Buzz Berger (a.k.a. Whitey)
- Milburn Stone as Tex Austin
Production
- After completing this film, Bobby Jordan left the Universal Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys series, and signed on to Monogram Pictures to costar with fellow Dead End Kid Leo Gorcey in the East Side Kids series. Jordan would return to Universal to replace Billy Halop in Keep 'Em Slugging, the final Dead End Kids film for Universal.
- Though his character is referred to as "Buzz" throughout the film, the credits for this film state that Shemp Howard's character name was "Whitey".
