Give Us Wings
1940 film by Charles Lamont / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[1]
| Give Us Wings | |
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| Directed by | Charles Lamont |
| Written by | Arthur T. Horman (screenplay) Robert Lee Johnson (screenplay) Eliot Gibbons (story) |
| Produced by | Ken Goldsmith (associate producer) |
| Starring | Billy Halop Huntz Hall Gabriel Dell Bernard Punsly Bobby Jordan Shemp Howard |
| Cinematography | John Boyle |
| Edited by | Frank Gross |
| Music by | Charles Previn (musical director) H.J. Salter (conductor) Frank Skinner (composer: stock music) Paul Van Loan (composer: stock music) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 62 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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".[2]