Jet Pilot
Exploding with all the power of the jet age... with all the passion of a daring love story!
Director Josef von Sternberg
U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon is tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and marrying her, 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.
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Cast
John Whitney
Buck Young
John Wayne
Col. Jim Shannon
Kenneth Tobey
Ivan Triesault
Gen. Dimitri Langrad
Paul Frees
Sylvia Lewis
Joey Ray
Jay C. Flippen
Maj. Gen. Black
Richard Rober
FBI Agent George Rivers
James Brown
Fred Graham
Herbert Lytton
Jimmy Dime
Mike Lally
Smoki Whitfield
Roland Winters
Col. Sokolov
Don Haggerty
Gene Roth
Gregg Barton
Ralph Volkie
Janet Leigh
Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief
Paul Fix
Maj. Rexford
Dorothy Abbott
Jane Easton
Bill Erwin
Frank O'Connor
James H. Russell
Harry Lauter
Ruthelma Stevens
Hans Conried
Col. Matoff
William Bryant
Ruth Lee
Mamie Van Doren
Joyce Compton
Mary Lou Simpson
Mike Mahoney
Carl Sklover
Carleton Young
Phil Arnold
Lamont Johnson
Wendell Niles
Rick Vallin
Gene Evans
Airfield Sergeant (uncredited),
Alberto Morin
Jack Overman
Denver Pyle
Mr. Simpson
Mason Alan Dinehart
Nelson Leigh
Michael Mark