JET PILOT

John Wayne, Janet Leigh

Universal; Directed by Josef Von Sternberg

Not Rated; 112 minutes; 1957

Jet Pilot, director Josef Von Sternberg's only color film, is a Cold War comedy in which an Air Force Colonel (John Wayne) assigned to extract military secrets from a supposedly defecting Soviet jet pilot (Janet Leigh) falls in love with his beautiful charge. After he marries her, the Pentagon instructs him to jet to the Soviet Union with his new bride, feigning conversion to her cause but actually on a mission of espionage. When the Russians discover the deception, the Colonel and his wife are forced to make a daring escape back to the Free World.