Clipped Wings (1953)
7/10
Don't talk to me like that! I remember when you were a grocery store!
14 November 2010
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** With their good friend Air Force Lt. Dave Moreno arrested and jailed for espionage Slip & Sach go to the nearest US Air Force recruiting station, it's the only place that they could think of, in order to see him before he's put on trial for is life. Like in previous "Bowery Boys" movies, involving the US Army Navy & Marines, Slip & Sach unwittingly sign their lives, or 3 to 4 years, away by enlisting into the US Air Force.

As you would expect it's that lucky stiff Sach who gets the best of the bargain by being assigned by the what seemed like near sighted, who must have forgot to put his glasses on, Col Davenport to the WACK, womens, unit on he air force base. As for the unlucky Slip he's assigned to the company with the toughest and most ill tempered Sergent on the base Sgt. Brodsky. It's Sgt. Brodsky who ends up getting a king size headache when he tries unsuccessfully to turn Slip into an obedient and bowing to authority air force man.

As the boys soon find out Dave Moreno is no traitor to his country he's working undercover with US Air Froce security and FBI to nab a number of Soviet spies who are trying to get their hands on top secret military documents involving US missile defense. This puts Slip & Sach in the middle of this espionage ring in trying to get the spies before they gets their hands on Moreno, who's really in protective custody not jail, and torture the truth, about the Air Force secret projects, out of him!

We also haver in the movie fellow "Bowery Boys" Butch & Chuck as well as sweet shop owner Louie Dumbrowsky get into the act in them helping save Moreno from his captors the Soviet spies! I've began to notice over the last few "Bowery Boys" films that this trio of klutzes, Butch Chuck & Louie, always seem to get into he act no matter what the circumstances are. Like here without any military clearance in being able to get into a top secret and off limits to civilians air force base during, this while the Korean War was still being waged, wartime! And all they seem to do is only make thing worse then they already are!

***SPOILERS*** Great final sequence with Sach taking to the air with Slip reluctantly coming along on a remote controlled plane that's targeted to be shot top pieces by USAF saber jets for target practice! Without knowing what he's doing Sach lands the bullet riddled plane just outside the spies hideout where they have Moreno held hostage. This leads to a wild free for all with Slip using his amazing footwork and boxing abilities to put the spies to sleep. But the real surprise in this whole fracas was the truth serum that the Soviet spies planed to used on Dave Moreno to get him to talk! Slip used it on them to get the spies to convict themselves saving the US militry the cost of trying them!
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