Jet Pilot

Name: Jet Pilot
Cast: John Wayne, Janet Leigh, Jay C. Flippen, Paul Fix, Richard Rober

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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.

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Cast & Crew

Director: Josef von SternbergWriter: Jules FurthmanProducer: Howard Hughes

John Wayne

as Col. Jim Shannon

Janet Leigh

as Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief

Jay C. Flippen

as Maj. Gen. Black

Paul Fix

as Maj. Rexford

Richard Rober

as FBI Agent George Rivers

Roland Winters

as Col. Sokolov

Hans Conried

as Col. Matoff

Ivan Triesault

as Gen. Dimitri Langrad

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