Jet Pilot

Action, Adventure, Romance

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Josef von Sternberg

Status Released

Release Date 1957-10-11

Storyline

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.

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