Air Devils

Air Devils is a 1938 American comedy and action film directed by John Rawlins, based on an original story, The Fighting Marines by Harold Buckley. The film stars Larry J. Blake, Dick Purcell and Beryl Wallace.

The two pilots find that local tavern owner, Tom Mordant Charles Brokaw, has been stirring up the natives and a civil war is brewing. The two rivals have to combine forces to stop violence and bring the island back to peaceful times.Air Devils begins with this prologue The Pacific Ocean is strewn with tropical islands, large and small, to which drift adventuring souls. The island are policed and protected by constabularies which function under the local governments. These constabularies are well disciplined military organizations, splendidly equipped and officered by men who have completed enlistments in, and been honorably discharged from, the Army, Navy or Marine Corps, but who have succumbed to the magic spell of the South Seas. Despite the presence of Mamo Clark as Lolano, who had made her film debut in a featured role in Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 and the illusion of an exotic locale embodied by lush sets, Air Devils was a studio property. Universal Pictures began principal photography late March 1938 at Talisman Studios. Air Devils has an aviationoriented title that is belied by there being very few scenes with an aircraft. Only one Waco biplane is seen in the film. ........

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