Jet Pilot

Exploding with all the power of the jet age... with all the passion of a daring love story!

Jet Pilot — Plot

U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon is tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and marrying her, 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.

• Release date
• October 11, 1957
• Runtime
• 112 min
• Genres
• Action, Adventure, Romance
• Director
• Josef von Sternberg

Jet Pilot — Cast

John Wayne Col. Jim Shannon Janet Leigh Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief Jay C. Flippen Maj. Gen. Black Paul Fix Maj. Rexford Richard Rober FBI Agent George Rivers Roland Winters Col. Sokolov Hans Conried Col. Matoff Ivan Triesault Gen. Dimitri Langrad