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Clipped Wings is a american film of genre Action directed by Stuart Paton released in USA on 2 december 1937 with Lloyd Hughes
Clipped Wings (1937)
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Add to a movie listClipped Wings is a 1937 American crime and aviation film directed by Stuart Paton from an original story and screenplay by Paul Willett. The film stars Lloyd E. Hughes, Rosalind Keith and William Janney.
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In World War I, Captain Jerry Broun (Lloyd Hughes) feels he has to fight even though the United States has not yet entered the conflict. He enrols in Canada to fly as a pilot, with his adoring young half-brother Mickey (Delmar Watson) wanting to follow in his footsteps by becoming a pilot.Actors
Lloyd Hughes
(Capt. Jerry Brown / Jim Lofton)
Rosalind Keith
(Molly McGuire)
William Janney
(Mickey Lofton)
George Regas
(Fernando, Moran's Henchman)
Richard Cramer
(Moran, Jones' Henchman)
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