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Flying Wild (1941)

1941 · Feature film · 60 min · dir. William West

FLYING FIFTH COLUMNISTS MAKE A FORCED LANDING!

  • Thriller
  • Action
  • Comedy
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Synopsis

Flying Wild is a 1941 American comedy thriller film directed by the former Chaplin impersonator Billy West, under the pseudonym "William West". It was the fifth of 22 features in the East Side Kids series. The film is the team's first one in the spy film genre. The supporting cast includes Joan Barclay, Dave O'Brien and Herbert Rawlinson. It was distributed by Monogram Pictures.

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Details

Director
William West
Writer
Al Martin
Cinematography
Fred Jackman Jr.
Studio
Sam Katzman Productions
Released
1941-03-10
Series
East Side Kids Collection
Running time
60 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★★ · What Comedy! · malary · 2009-05-07

The kids are hilarious in this picture, as they are in all their features. Muggs is one of the toughest yet very likeable characters I've ever seen. This is a good comedy to watch with the whole family

★★★★ · Only in Hollyweird · Dr Feel Rotten · 2011-02-06

Can the white kids gets a black eye and the black kid gets a white eye. Turns out Scruno, the only black actor in the movie was the most famous of them all and one of the original cast members of Our gang comedies.

★★★★ · great airplane footage · Gopher_Baroque · 2011-04-30

In addition to others' comments about the actors and story, I enjoyed the (now vintage) aircraft in the background.

★★★★ · Flying Wild · spacebar_presser · 2006-11-14

An enjoyable film with the Muggs and the gang. Seems to be missing a minute or two of footage early in the movie. One of the gang is going to be asaulted, then the next scene he already has! But other then that missing moment, it's a good film.

★★★★ · One of the best in the East Side Kids series · stingrayfilms · 2010-10-03

First film with Gorcey doing verbal malaprops. The test pilot (Dave O'Brien) appeared in many of these films, sometimes as Danny's brother. He was also in Reefer Madness. Funny how Danny wears the same striped shirt in nearly every movie. Lots of great sight gags in the beginning, but the "white eye" Scruno gets in the end is a bit much.

★★★ · Spring in the Bronx? · Douglas fae Aiberdeen · 2005-08-26

The East Side Kids 'Flying Wild' is an enjoyable little piece of fluff - entertaining, and almost as valuable as a piece of social history, depicting the USA gearing up for entry into the Second World War (more by implication than express statement)and Leo Gorcey and pals taking on the saboteurs. Birds are boids and derbies are doibies - if you've read Ogden Nash's Spring in the Bronx you'll recognise the patois. Nash also said: The Bronx? No, Thonx! To which I riposte: Leo Goisey Beats New Joisey. The East End Kids became the Bowery Boys. There must be nigh-on 60 of their films - zero budget…

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