Jet Pilot (film)
Jet Pilot is a 1957 Cold War action film starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh. Written by Jules Furthman and coproduced by Furthman and Howard Hughes, the Technicolor movie went through several directorial changes, after Josef von Sternberg began the directing between October 1949 and February 1950. After that point, Furthman, Philip Cochran second unit director, Ed Killy assistant, Byron Haskin for the model work and Don Siegel also directed scenes Siegels werent used, as did Howard Hughes himself.
A Russian defector lands a jet fighter aircraft on an American airstrip. The base commander, Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon John Wayne is surprised to find that the pilot is an attractive woman, Lieutenant Anna Marladovna Janet Leigh. When she asks for asylum, but refuses to disclose any military information, Shannon is assigned to seduce her. They fall in love. Worried about the possibility of deportation, Jim marries her without permission.When they return from their unauthorized honeymoon, Major General Black Jay C. Flippen takes Jim aside and informs him that his new wife is a spy, sent to relay information back to the USSR. The Americans decide to play along, and escalate the situation. ........
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