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Tracy Takes Off
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Spencer Tracy in "Sky Devils," Howard Hughes's silly World War I comedy. Tracy (center) and William Boyd play two inept stowaways who end up on a ship that was taking aviators to Europe. With them in this scene is Ann Dvorak. It is likely that the vintage airplanes used in the film are planes that Hughes purchased for his 1930 film "Hell's Angels."
1932
Caddo Company, Inc.
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WHi 10990
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Howard Hughes
1932
Howard Hughes on the set of "Sky Devils," a comedy about World War I aviation that starred Spencer Tracy. Hughes reused many of the airplanes he obtained for the 1930 production of "Hell's Angels."...
Hell's Angels Scene
1930
Scene at Caddo Field during the filming of "Hell's Angels," Howard Hughes' extravagant World War I aviation film. In this scene, the large vintage Gotha brought to Hollywood from Germany by Hughes...
"Sky Devils" Props
Vintage World War airplanes used in the filming of "Sky Devils" (1932), a motion picture produced by Howard Hughes.
Gotha and Film Production Crew and Cast
1930
A vintage German Gotha airplane brought to Hollywood by Howard Hughes for use in "Hell's Angels," together with members of the Caddo Company's film crew and several members of the cast in the plane...
Aerial Combat Reenacted
1930
An aerial combat scene from "Hell's Angel's," Howard Hughes' classic 1930 motion picture about the British Air Force during World War I. This film was distributed by United Artists, whose records ...
Tracy Plays Doolittle
1944
Spencer Tracy as Jimmy Doolittle in a B-25 during a scene from "Thirty-Seconds Over Tokyo" (MGM 1944).
