Friday, October 10, 2025

John Wayne Movie Review: ***^Jet Pilot (1957)

 This is a cold war movie of spy versus spy.  It appears a Russian pilot, Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon/Olga Orlief (Janet Leigh) is defecting to the U.S.  Col. Jim Shannon (John Wayne) is assigned to her to get information from her.  At the same time she is getting information from the Americans and feeding it back to Russia.  She even gets some plans.  Orlief and Shannon marry in an attempt to keep her from being deported.  It is discovered she is actually a spy.  Now the opposite happens, Shannon flies her to Siberia and he defects.  However he is also working as a spy for the Americans.  When Orlief learns that the intend to trade Shannon to the Americans, but not until they destroy his memory with drugs, they do the defecting rescuing thing a third time.


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