Give Us Wings

Give Us Wings
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
Release dates
  • December 20, 1940 (1940-12-20)
Running time
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.

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

The Little Tough Guys

Additional cast

Production

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