Hell in the Heavens is a 1934 American aviation drama film directed by John G. Blystone and written by Byron Morgan, Ted Parsons and Jack Yellen based on the stage play Der Flieger by Hermann Roßmann.

The film stars Warner Baxter, Conchita Montenegro, Russell Hardie, Herbert Mundin, Andy Devine and William Stelling.

[1]During World War I, American ace pilot Lieutenant Steve Warner leads a group of replacements for the French Lafayette Escadrille.

Hell in the Heavens was based on the 1931 stage play Flieger by Hermann Roßman and the 1933 English-language adaptation The Ace by Miles Malleson.

Screenwriter Byron Morgan stated that the play was based on the experiences of officers and men in a German flying squadron and those of his cowriter Ted Parsons, who had been a member of the Lafayette Escadrille.

He can be a hero or a coward; he can bring down an enemy plane and dream at night that he is falling in flame; he can get drunk and give vent to his tortured nerves; he can fall in love; he can find himself at last and, by shooting down the German raider, discover from him that an enemy soul can be harrowed by the same feelings that burn within his own.