Give Us Wings

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]

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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	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	December 20, 1940 (1940-12-20)
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]