Clipped Wings
They're Plane Crazy!
NR 1953 · 62 min · ★ 7.0 · Comedy
Slip and correspondence school pilot Sach, go to an air base to help a pal out...but find themselves in when they mistakenly sign enlistment forms. Can the Air Force turn these dodos into eagles? The guys may be airborne airheads, But just watch them find a way to ground a spy network that's infiltrated the base.
Directed by Edward Bernds · Written by Charles R. Marion
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Cast
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Leo Gorcey Slip Mahoney -
Huntz Hall Horace Debussey "Sach" Jones -
Bernard Gorcey Louie Dumbrowsky -
June Vincent Doreen Thompson -
Mary Treen Mildred -
Lyle Talbot Captain Blair -
David Gorcey Chuck -
Benny Bartlett Butch -
Fay Roope Col. Davenport -
Todd Karns Lt. Dave Moreno -
Renie Riano WAF Sgt. Anderson -
Philip Van Zandt Joe Eckler
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Live Wires · 1946Live Wires
★ 5.61946
MovieComedyCrime
Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. His sister, who got him a job at the company, is angry with him. Slip manages to get a job with the District Attorney serving warrants, as does Sach. Through his job, Slip finds out that all is not quite kosher at his old construction company, and that his sister may be in danger.
In Fast Company · 1946In Fast Company
★ 6.81946
MovieComedy
The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers.
Bowery Bombshell · 1946Bowery Bombshell
★ 6.51946
MovieComedy
Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey and Chuck unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith snaps a pictures of three bank robbers as they are fleeing a robbery but when the Bowery Boys and Cathy realize that Sach is also in the photograph, they break into the photo lab to destroy the negative, which might make the police think Sach was involved in the robbery.
Spook Busters · 1946Spook Busters
★ 5.51946
MovieComedyHorror
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night. Meeting up with pal Gabe and his new French bride, the boys are tormented by mad scientists who try to convince them the place is haunted and then kidnap Sach in order to place his brain inside a gorilla.
Mr. Hex · 1946Mr. Hex
★ 7.31946
MovieComedy
Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.
Hard Boiled Mahoney · 1947Hard Boiled Mahoney
★ 6.81947
MovieComedyMystery
Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.
News Hounds · 1947News Hounds
★ 6.81947
MovieComedyCrime
Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring that is fixing sporting events, so he and Sach go undercover to expose the ring.
Bowery Buckaroos · 1947Bowery Buckaroos
★ 6.61947
MovieComedyWestern
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped by Indian Joe. Gabe poses as a dangerous gunman, the Klondike Kid, while Slip is in charge of all the remaining loose ends.
Angels' Alley · 1948Angels' Alley
★ 5.21948
MovieDramaComedy
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
Jinx Money · 1948Jinx Money
★ 5.61948
MovieComedyCrime
A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.
Smuggler's Cove · 1948Smuggler's Cove
★ 5.31948
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Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name, Terrance Mahoney. The messenger has a letter for "Terrance Mahonoey, Esq." and mistakenly delivers it to Slip. The letter informs Slip that he has inherited a mansion in Long Island. The boys then make their way to the mansion and find that it is inhabited by diamond smugglers. The real owner of the house shows up and helps save the day and defeat the smugglers and gives the boys the house as a reward.
Trouble Makers · 1948Trouble Makers
★ 6.11948
MovieCrimeComedy
Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.
Fighting Fools · 1949Fighting Fools
★ 6.01949
MovieComedy
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.
Hold That Baby! · 1949Hold That Baby!
★ 5.81949
MovieComedy
While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance. The boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby and anyone who helps them.
Angels in Disguise · 1949Angels in Disguise
★ 6.01949
MovieComedyCrime
Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.
Master Minds · 1949Master Minds
★ 6.41949
MovieComedyHorror
When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switching experiment with a monster.
Blonde Dynamite · 1950Blonde Dynamite
★ 6.81950
MovieComedyCrime
While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into a male escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients.
Lucky Losers · 1950Lucky Losers
★ 6.61950
MovieComedy
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion that the club had something to do with his boss' death and sets out to find his murderer. The boys get jobs at the club and Louie poses as a rich cattlemen as they gather the information to convict the murderers.
Triple Trouble · 1950Triple Trouble
★ 7.01950
MovieComedy
Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.
Blues Busters · 1950Blues Busters
★ 6.71950
MovieComedy
The Bowery Boys open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice.
Bowery Battalion · 1951Bowery Battalion
★ 8.01951
MovieComedyAction
Slip, Sach and the gang think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
Ghost Chasers · 1951Ghost Chasers
★ 6.81951
MovieComedyAction
A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.
Let's Go Navy! · 1951Let's Go Navy!
★ 8.01951
MovieComedy
The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
Crazy Over Horses · 1951Crazy Over Horses
★ 6.71951
MovieComedy
The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers
Hold That Line · 1952Hold That Line
★ 7.01952
MovieActionComedy
The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game.
Here Come the Marines · 1952Here Come the Marines
★ 7.31952
MovieComedyCrime
After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left for dead on the side of the road. Slip discovers a playing card next to the marine and traces it to Jolly Joe Johnson's gambling house. They suspect that the gambling house is cheating and set out to uncover the proof.
Feudin' Fools · 1952Feudin' Fools
★ 5.51952
MovieComedy
Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a hillbilly clan named Smith who'll shoot anybody named Jones, plus a gang of bank robbers.
No Holds Barred · 1952No Holds Barred
★ 5.61952
MovieComedy
One of the Bowery Boys gains superhuman strength, and he cashes in by becoming a pro wrestler.
Jalopy · 1953Jalopy
★ 5.31953
MovieComedy
Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning until Satch, with the aid of a scientist acquaintance, comes up with a chemical concoction that acts as a super-fuel; but a rival entrant in the race learns of this and tries to get the formula for himself.
Loose in London · 1953Loose in London
★ 5.91953
MovieComedyAction
The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.
Private Eyes · 1953Private Eyes
★ 7.81953
MovieComedy
After being punched in the nose, Sach finds out that he has the ability to read minds. Slip and the gang start up a detective agency try to cash in on Sach's new powers.
Paris Playboys · 1954Paris Playboys
★ 5.01954
MovieComedy
Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist, attempt to kidnap him and get the formula for the fuel.
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters · 1954The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
★ 5.41954
MovieComedyHorror
Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with a gorilla, a robot and a vampire
Jungle Gents · 1954Jungle Gents
★ 5.21954
MovieComedy
When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys are induced by a diamond dealer to accompany him to Darkest Africa in search of a legendary cache of them.
Bowery to Bagdad · 1955Bowery to Bagdad
★ 6.51955
MovieComedyFantasy
The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
High Society · 1955High Society
★ 5.71955
MovieComedy
Sach receives news that he is the heir to the Terwilliger Debussy Jones fortune. Accompanied by his pal Slip, he arrives at the Jones mansion to review the legal papers needed for him to claim his new fortune. However, Sach and Slip discover that the rightful heir, the young Terwilliger III, is being cheated out of his inheritance by the miscreant duo of Stuyvesant Jones and Clarissa. Sach and Slip, with the help of their fellow Bowery Boys, save the day and restore the heir’s inheritance.
Spy Chasers · 1955Spy Chasers
★ 7.51955
MovieComedy
Slip and the gang foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania.
Jail Busters · 1955Jail Busters
★ 6.71955
MovieComedy
Slip and Sach go to prison to help a reporter with a story.
Dig That Uranium · 1955Dig That Uranium
★ 4.31955
MovieComedy
The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it's pretty much worthless. However, the local badmen are distrustful of these new strangers, and when they mistakenly get the impression that the mine is loaded with uranium, they hatch a scheme to get rid of the boys and take over the mine.
Crashing Las Vegas · 1956Crashing Las Vegas
★ 5.71956
MovieComedy
An electric shock enables Sach to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their landlady buy an apartment building. Witnessing his winning streak, some gangsters decide to move in and find out his "system" for beating the odds.
Fighting Trouble · 1956Fighting Trouble
★ 6.81956
MovieCrimeAdventure
An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
Hot Shots · 1956Hot Shots
★ 6.31956
MovieComedy
Sach and the gang baby-sit a bratty TV star.
Hold That Hypnotist · 1957Hold That Hypnotist
★ 5.81957
MovieComedyMystery
When one of the Boys agrees to be hypnotized, he discovers he led a past life in the 1600s as a British tax collector.
Spook Chasers · 1957Spook Chasers
★ 4.91957
MovieComedy
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.
Looking for Danger · 1957Looking for Danger
★ 5.81957
MovieComedy
Sach and the gang fool Nazis and a sultan in North Africa.
Up In Smoke · 1957Up In Smoke
★ 6.01957
MovieComedy
In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.
In the Money · 1958In the Money
★ 6.71958
MovieComedy
The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.
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Rebel Highway · 1994Rebel Highway
★ 8.01994
SeriesDramaCrime
Rebel Highway is a 1994 revival of American International Pictures, created and produced by Lou Arkoff, the son of Samuel Z. Arkoff, and Debra Hill for the Showtime network. The concept was a ten-week series of 1950s "drive-in classic" B-movies remade "with a '90s edge". Each episode shares a title with a late 1950s-early 1960s-era AIP film. However, they are not remakes; each installment is a different story from that which they are titled.
The impetus for the series, according to Arkoff was, 'what it would be like if you made Rebel Without a Cause today. It would be more lurid, sexier, and much more dangerous, and you definitely would have had Natalie Wood's top off'.
It Happened One Night · 1934It Happened One Night
★ 7.81934
MovieComedyRomance
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town · 1936Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
★ 7.51936
MovieComedyDrama
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Joy Ride · 1958Joy Ride
★ 7.51958
MovieCrimeDrama
Teenage story of a bad apple in a barrel evolving from a kid's desire to drive a new T-bird.
You Can't Take It with You · 1938You Can't Take It with You
★ 7.51938
MovieComedyRomance
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Three Little Pirates · 1946Three Little Pirates
★ 7.21946
MovieComedy
The stooges are castaways from a garbage scow who land on Dead Man's Island where everyone is living in olden times. To escape from the governor, they disguise Curly as a Maharaja and win permission to journey to their own country to fetch presents. The governor is fooled, but the boys run into more trouble in the den of Black Louie the pirate where Curly is forced into a knife throwing contest with Larry as the target. Things look bad until a mis-thrown knife cuts the rope that holds the chandelier and it crashes down on Black Louie's men. With the pirates defeated, Moe decides to take over as ruler of the island.
Dangerous Intrigue · 1936Dangerous Intrigue
★ 7.01936
MovieActionCrime
Anthony Halliday, a brilliant young surgeon, is forced to resign as chief of staff at a New York hospital when he is compelled to delay an appendectomy on the daughter of John Mitchell, a wealthy supporter of the hospital, because of an emergency operation he has to perform. The appendectomy is successful, but later complications cause the girl's death. Carol Andrews, his fiancée, regards him as a failure and leaves him. Halliday, suffering from amnesia brought on by the shocks, drifts to Scranton, Pa., where he gets work in the steel mill. He only remembers who he is when he finds himself bandaging some injured workers. The mill doctor, Miller, asks him to become his assistant. Halliday remains at the mill under the name of John Davis. Because of many accidents at the mill, the smelter boss, Joe Kosovic is demoted. He becomes friendly with Halliday and invites him home for dinner, where he becomes attracted to Gerta, Joe school-teacher daughter.
Twentieth Century · 1934Twentieth Century
★ 6.81934
MovieComedyRomance
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Blondie's Hero · 1950Blondie's Hero
★ 6.81950
MovieComedy
Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of problems which lead to numerous conflicts.
Jail Busters · 1955Jail Busters
★ 6.71955
MovieComedy
Slip and Sach go to prison to help a reporter with a story.
Platinum Blonde · 1931Platinum Blonde
★ 6.71931
MovieComedyRomance
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
Colt .45 · 1957Colt .45
★ 6.71957
SeriesWestern
Colt .45 is an American Western series which aired on ABC between October 1957 and September 1960. Christopher Colt was apparently a gun salesman but was in fact a government agent tracking down notorious bad guys.
The half-hour program is loosely based on the 1950 Warner Bros. film of the same name, starring Randolph Scott. Colt .45 was part of the William T. Orr-produced array of westerns which Warner produced for ABC in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The Tooth Will Out · 1951The Tooth Will Out
★ 6.61951
MovieComedy
The stooges graduate from dental school and go out west to open a practice. Everything goes well until Shemp "cures" an outlaw's toothache from the instructions in a carpentry book, and the boys must leave on the run.
Slappily Married · 1946Slappily Married
★ 6.51946
MovieComedy
Joe's wife, who thinks he's been carrying on with another woman, moves out.
The Black Room · 1935The Black Room
★ 6.51935
MovieHorrorCrime
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...
Monkey Businessmen · 1946Monkey Businessmen
★ 6.41946
MovieComedy
The stooges are bumbling electricians who decide to go away for a rest after they are fired for their incompetence. The rest home they choose is run by Dr. Mallard, a quack who gyps the patients for everything they've got. When the boys discover the crooked goings on they escape, but not before Curly accidentally cures another patient who rewards him with a thousand dollars.
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