Jet Pilot

Year: 1957

Runtime: 112 mins

Language: English

Director: Josef von Sternberg

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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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