Sky Devils, also known as Ground Hogs, is a 1932 American Pre-Code aviation comedy film starring Spencer Tracy as a draft dodger who blunders into a war zone.
When the pair goes to a Red Cross benefit boxing match, they again encounter the sergeant, billed as "One Punch" Hogan, but Wilkie surprisingly knocks him out before sneaking out with Mitchell as a crowd gathers.
Determined to find a way out, Wilkie and Mitchell desert, and head to South America, hopping in a manure truck that is leaving the base.
The locations for the production included U.S. Army Air Corps March Field, San Pedro and Venice, California, along with Yuma, Arizona.
[6] Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times described the film as "a boisterous affair, in which even the familiar mud-hole in the water is employed to arouse laughter.
"[7] Aviation film historians Hardwick and Schnepf, however, noted that Sky Devils was an example in which "Howard Hughes figured he had made such a score with 'Hell's Angels', he'd try it again with much of the same aerial footage and new stars.