
Jet Pilot
Exploding with all the power of the jet age... with all the passion of a daring love story!
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.
Director Josef von Sternberg
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Cast

Hans Conried
Col. Matoff

Joyce Compton
Mary Lou Simpson

Gene Evans
Airfield Sergeant (uncredited),

Dorothy Abbott

Harry Lauter

Herbert Lytton

Denver Pyle
Mr. Simpson

Mason Alan Dinehart

Paul Frees

Mike Lally

Mike Mahoney

Michael Mark

Joey Ray

Smoki Whitfield

Jay C. Flippen
Maj. Gen. Black

Ivan Triesault
Gen. Dimitri Langrad

Jimmy Dime

Fred Graham

Rick Vallin

Phil Arnold

James H. Russell

Ruthelma Stevens

Wendell Niles

James Brown

Jane Easton

Ralph Volkie

Don Haggerty

John Whitney

Paul Fix
Maj. Rexford

Gregg Barton

Sylvia Lewis

John Wayne
Col. Jim Shannon

Kenneth Tobey

Ruth Lee

Janet Leigh
Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief

Roland Winters
Col. Sokolov

Lamont Johnson

Nelson Leigh

Alberto Morin

Gene Roth

Richard Rober
FBI Agent George Rivers

Frank O'Connor

Mamie Van Doren

Buck Young

Carleton Young

Carl Sklover

Bill Erwin

Jack Overman

William Bryant