Sky Devils

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.

Sky Devils ad in The Film Daily, 1932
Sky Devils ad, The Film Daily , 1932