Jet Pilot (movie)
- User score: 5.5
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Josef von Sternberg
- Production companies: RKO Radio Pictures
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
- Budget: $9,000,000
- Release date: 10/11/1957
- Run time: 112 min.
Movie description
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.
