
Hue and Cry(1947)
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.


“TOUGH HIDES...and STOUT HEARTS!...THE DEAD END KIDS and Little Tough Guys!”
Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.

Billy Halop
Tom

Huntz Hall
Pig

Gabriel Dell
String

Bernard Punsly
Ape

Bobby Jordan
Rap

Wallace Ford
Mr. York

Anne Gwynne
Julie Mason

Victor Jory
Mr. Arnold Carter

Shemp Howard
Buzz Berger

Milburn Stone
Tex Austin
Give Us Wings is a crime, adventure, comedy, drama film released in 1940 exploring themes of airplane, gang, dead end kids, crop dusting, little tough guys. Directed by Charles Lamont, it stars Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell. Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.
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