Jet Pilot

1957

English

5.6

♡ 5

67%

Josef von Sternberg Director

Joyce Compton as Mrs. Simpson

Bill Erwin as Sergeant

Gene Roth as Sokolov's Batman

Carleton Young as Technical Sergeant in Palmer Field Control Tower

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.