Jet Pilot
Jet Pilot
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.
- Director: Josef von Sternberg
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
- Actors: Janet Leigh, Jay C. Flippen, Paul Fix, Richard Rober
