Product Details

• Actors: Leo Gorcey, Donald Haines
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Alpha Video
• DVD Release Date: September 28, 2004
• Run Time: 61 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002PYT4G
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #279,510 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents. Studio: Gotham (dba Alpha) Release Date: 10/19/2004 Starring: Leo Gorcey Donald Haines Run time: 64 minutes Director: William West

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Labeled with warning about poor quality, February 24, 2005

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Paul J. Mular (San Carlos, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: East Side Kids: Flying Wild (DVD)

Alpha/Gohtam has given fair notice with a warning label on the back stating that this DVD is below their general quality standards. The picture suffers from heavy compression, some objects move in the opposite direction of others in the same shot. It does not look as bad as the PLATINUM DISC "8 MOVIE" set, but it can be distracting. To date this rare movie has no other mastering material available.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Its Few Merits Are Owed To Unplanned Action., June 6, 2005

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rsoonsa (Lake Isabella, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: East Side Kids: Flying Wild (DVD)

This is the fifth in the set of East Side Kids films that form the middle grouping of the three series wherein Leo Gorcey, playing here as Muggs McGinnis, gives the members of the mini-mob that he leads little peace, with this wartime effort having a familiar subject: patriotic East Sider engagement versus enemy agents. While the others of the gang have found employment in support of the war effort as aircraft assemblers at a local plant, indolent Muggs prefers to remain unemployed while giving aid to his pals by driving them to and from work in his battered topless jalopy, and then merely hanging about while the rest are at work. As he is poking about near plane hangars, Muggs discovers a "Flying Ambulance" experimental craft, as well as a good-looking nurse who goes with it, Helen, played by Joan Barclay, and due to an overheard conversation, he is convinced that the physician/owner of the plane and his cohorts are spies responsible for a developing crisis involving domestic sabotage. Although Muggs is unsuccessful at an attempt to convince the factory owner that his plant is housing saboteurs, Muggs' fellow East Siders endorse his theory and the storyline arranges for a climactic conflict between them and a coterie of subversives, with test pilot Tom (Dave O'Brien), boyfriend of Helen, joining in to tangle with the Forces of Evil. A skimpy budget always worked nicely for producer Sam Katzman with his Monogram Pictures releases, but for this item, the original title of which was AIR DEVILS, dependence upon single takes gives it a threadbare look, although expressions of dismay upon the faces of Gorcey, Bobby Jordan and others in a well-known scene as the Muggs steered jalopy unexpectedly tips completely over are well beyond value. The comical ad libbing that enhances later productions in the series, especially after the addition of Huntz Hall, is scarce during the affair but it is noteworthy that Gorcey introduces his unique malapropisms with this work that also includes an appearance in the cast of veteran B film director Robert Hill, the same who was at the helm of the first East Side Kids undertaking.