''Clipped Wings'' is a 1953
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
starring
The Bowery Boys
The Bowery Boys are fictional New York City characters, portrayed by a company of New York actors, who were the subject of 48 feature films released by Monogram Pictures and its successor Allied Artists Pictures Corporation from 1946 through 195 ...
.
The film was released on August 14, 1953, by
Allied Artists and is the thirty-first film in the series.
Plot
The boys' friend, Dave Moreno, is being held for treason by the U.S. Air Force. Slip and Sach go to headquarters to help Dave, but mistakenly enlist. Sach is also mistakenly assigned to a
WAF barracks. When the boys finally do visit Dave he tells them he does not need help, as he is secretly being used to capture enemy agents. Undeterred by Dave's words, the boys continue to investigate and Slip and Sach wind up airborne. Good luck allows them to land safely, just where the spies are hiding out. They capture the spies and Dave's true mission is revealed.
Cast
The Bowery Boys
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Leo Gorcey
Leo Bernard Gorcey (June 3, 1917– June 2, 1969) was an American stage and film actor, famous for portraying the leader of a group of hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, the East Side Kids and, as adults, The Bowery Boys. Gorcey was ...
as Terrance Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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Huntz Hall
Henry Richard "Huntz" Hall (August 15, 1920 – January 30, 1999) was an American radio, stage, and movie performer who appeared in the popular "Dead End Kids" movies, including ''Angels with Dirty Faces'' (1938), and in the later " Bowery ...
as Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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David Gorcey
David Gorcey (February 6, 1921 – October 23, 1984) was an American actor and the younger brother of actor Leo Gorcey. Gorcey is best known for portraying "Chuck Anderson" in Monogram Pictures' film series The Bowery Boys, and "Pee Wee" in i ...
as Chuck Anderson (Credited as David Condon)
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Bennie Bartlett
Floyd B. Bartlett, known professionally as Benny Bartlett or Bennie Bartlett (August 16, 1924 – December 26, 1999), was an American child actor, musician, and later a member of the long-running feature-film series ''The Bowery Boys''.
Biog ...
as Butch Williams
Remaining cast
Production
In a prime example of
product placement
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the "Atomic Jet" amusement coin-operated ride form Nat Cohn's Riteway Sales that appeared in the film and advertising material was offered to be installed in every theatre that showed ''Clipped Wings''
[p. 85 ''Motion Picture Atomic Jet Promotion to Get Underway'' ''Billboard'' 20 Jun 1953]
Home media
Released on VHS by Warner Brothers on September 1, 1998.
Warner Archives released the film on made-to-order
DVD
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in the United States as part of ''"The Bowery Boys, Volume Two"'' on April 9, 2013.
References
External links
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{{Edward Bernds
1953 films
American black-and-white films
American spy comedy films
Bowery Boys films
American aviation films
Military humor in film
1950s spy comedy films
Allied Artists films
1953 comedy films
Films about the United States Air Force
1950s English-language films
Films directed by Edward Bernds
1950s American films