Clipped Wings
A DYNAMIC DRAMA OF THE OIL FIELDS WITH SENSATIONAL SKY AND LAND BATTLES!
1937 · 1h 3m · Approved
Action, Adventure, Crime
Directed by
Stuart Paton
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Clipped Wings
Overview
Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Canadian Air Corps, because of his fear of thunderstorms developed by an incident in his boyhood days. Jerry, now a Captain in the U.S. Department of Justice, is given an assignment to capture some border oil smugglers. Through his friendship with Raoul McGuire, one of the suspects, Jerry is accepted as a member of the gang. Mickey is in love with Raoul's sister, Molly. Gang leader Moran shoots and wounds Raoul, and is himself shot down by Jerry. Mickey flies Molly and her wounded brother to a hospital. Jerry takes off in another plane to guard Mickey's craft from a pursuing airplane, and crashes his plane into the gangster's plane but parachutes to safety.
Director and cast
- Stuart Paton Director
- Lloyd Hughes as Capt. Jerry Brown / Jim Lofton
- Rosalind Keith as Molly McGuire
- William Janney as Mickey Lofton
- George Regas as Fernando, Moran's Henchman
- Henry Otho as Sgt. Phalen
- Richard Cramer as Moran, Jones' Henchman
- Jason Robards Sr. as Raoul McGuire
- Joseph W. Girard as Col. A.C. Clayton, Flight Surgeon
- Glen Boles as Cecil Dunbar, Mickey's Pal
- Delmar Watson as Mickey Lofton, as a Boy
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