Give Us Wings
Cast & Crew
Charles Lamont
Billy Halop
Huntz Hall
Gabriel Dell
Bernard Punsly
Bobby Jordan
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Tom, Pig, Rap, Ape and String, five boys who are learning aeronautical mechanics in a National Youth Administration Work Program plant, are taking flying lessons with their meager savings. Although the boys are eager to become pilots, they are ineligible to attend the Civil Aeronautics Authority school because none of them have completed high school. Consequently, when Arnold Carter, an unscrupulous operator of a crop dusting firm, offers them a job flying his decrepit old planes, the boys jump at the opportunity. When they appear for work, however, York, Carter's manager, believes that they are too inexperienced to fly, and so assigns them to ground work while they practice their flying technique. When Tex, Carter's only experienced pilot, crashes, the company begins to fall behind in their contracts, and so Carter orders the boys into the air. York finally agrees that all the boys, except for Rap who is terrified of flying after witnessing the crash of Tex's plane, can fly, and they take to the air. York also refuses to dust a particular field because of the dangers of its tall groves of trees, and Carter, defying York's judgment, cajoles Rap into doing the job. While flying over the trees, Rap snaps off one of the plane's wings and crashes to his death. Losing his nerve, Carter tries to make a getaway in a plane, but Tom follows in another craft and forces him to earth with a dose of dust. He is met by the other boys, who turn him over to the authorities.
Director
Charles Lamont
Cast
Billy Halop
Huntz Hall
Gabriel Dell
Bernard Punsly
Bobby Jordan
Wallace Ford
Anne Gwynne
Victor Jory
Shemp Howard
Milburn Stone
Harris Berger
Billy Benedict
Etta Mcdaniel
James Flavin
Milton Kibbee
Paul White
Ben Lewis
Crew
John Boyle
Bernard B. Brown
Charles Carroll
Ralph M. Delacy
R. A. Gausman
Eliot Gibbons
Ken Goldsmith
Charles Gould
Frank Gross
Arthur T. Horman
Robert Lee Johnson
Jack Otterson
H. J. Salter
Vera West
Film Details
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Notes
The title of Eliot Gibbon's story was "Men of Dust." This film starred several actors from both "The Little Tough Guys" and "The Dead End Kids" series, and was the last film in those series. Several members of the casts of those series were also featured in "The East Side Kids" films. For additional information about the series, consult the Series Index under those headings and see entries for Crime School and Little Tough Guys.
