Give Us Wings (1940)

Directed by

Charles Lamont

Genre

crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 02m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of young toughs join the Army Air Corps in the years before World War II. The film follows their comedic adventures as they train to become cadets and learn to fly.

lightheartedfunnypatrioticfast-pacedplayfulyouthfulenergetic

What happens

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. 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". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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