Jet Pilot

Name: Jet Pilot
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Released: 1957-10-11
Duration: 1 h 52 min
Rating: 5.4
Cast: John Wayne, Janet Leigh, Jay C. Flippen, Paul Fix, Richard Rober

★ 5.4 1957 1h 52min Action • Adventure • Romance

John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.