Clipped Wings (1937 film)

Clipped 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.

Twenty years later, an older Michael William Janney attempts to enter the United States Army Air Corps USAAC, but cannot overcome his boyhood fear of thunderstorms and is washed out. N His friend Cecil Dunbar Glen Boles persuades a dejected Michael to come to a party hosted by crippled war veteran Raoul McGuire Jason Robards Sr.. Michael meets McGuires sister, Molly Rosalind Keith, who confides that her brother is engaged in criminal activities.Michaels older brother, now in the U.S. Department of Justice and assuming the name Jim Lofton, has protected his identity from his family and others, by circulaing the cover story that he was killed in the war. Loftons assignment is to arrest Raoul McGuire, his old flying buddy and the man who once saved his life. McGuire is smuggling oil across the Texas border and is fooled into believing Lofton is part of his gang. ........

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