Jet Pilot
Exploding with all the power of the jet age... with all the passion of a daring love story!
19571h 52mNo ratings yet
- Action
- Adventure
- Romance
Overview
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.
Keywords
- u.s. air force
- fighter jet
- jet fighter
- rko-scope
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 11, 1957
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Cast
- John Wayne,Janet Leigh,Jay C. Flippen,Paul Fix,Richard Rober,Roland Winters,Hans Conried,Ivan Triesault,Joyce Compton,Denver Pyleand 66 more
- Director
- Josef von Sternberg
- Writer
- Jules Furthman
- Producer
- Jules Furthman,Howard Hughes
- Cinematography
- Winton C. Hoch
- Music
- Bronislau Kaper
- Budget
- $9,000,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0050562