Jet Pilot

Jet Pilot

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Country	Error creating thumbnail: File missing United States
Directed by	Josef von Sternberg
Release Date	October 4, 1957
Language	English
Studio	RKO Radio Pictures
Distributor	RKO Radio Pictures

Main Cast
Character	Actor
Col. Jim Shannon	John Wayne
Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Capt. Olga Orlief	Janet Leigh
Maj. Gen. Black	Jay C. Flippen
Maj. Rexford	Paul Fix
FBI Agent George Rivers	Richard Rober
Col. Sokolov	Roland Winters
Col. Matoff	Hans Conried

Jet Pilot was filmed in the early 1950s and released in 1957 directed by Josef von Sternberg, with production by Howard Hughes and the cooperation of the U.S. Air Force. A Russian YAK trainer enters U.S. air space as the pilot defects to the United States. Air Force Colonel Shannon (John Wayne) is assigned to escort defecting Soviet pilot Lt. Anna Marladovna. As he is escorting her to various aircraft to test he falls in love with her unbeknown to him she is Soviet spy Olga Orlief. Colonel Shannon fakes an escape for the two of them back to Russia so he can turn the tables and spy on the Soviets. Great footage of early Cold War aircraft.

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