Characters & Themes
Jet Pilot (1957) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1957 · 112 mins · English
- Directed by
- Josef von Sternberg
- Starring
- John Wayne, Paul Fix, Jay C. Flippen, Ivan Triesault, Hans Conried, Janet Leigh
John Wayne plays U.S. Air Force pilot Jim Shannon, assigned to escort a Soviet flyer (Janet Leigh) who claims she wants to defect during the height of the Cold War. Shannon falls in love, marries her, then discovers she is a spy sent to steal military secrets. Determined to protect his new wife from imprisonment and deportation, he hatches a dangerous plan to outwit his superiors in this 1957 drama.
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