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Jet Pilot (1957)
Another infamous flop from the creative team of producer Howard Hughes and actor John Wayne, who had also teamed on THE CONQUEROR (also available on Google Video). This film actually went into production in 1949, but wasnt finished and ready for an official release until 1957 (the year after the release of the Genghis Khan film). Directed by Josef Von Sternberg. Co-starring Janet Leigh. Great fun for bad movie buffs!
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I must admit, this is one of my guilty pleasures. Janet Leigh is gorgeous as the Russian jet pilot, and it’s so ridiculous in its Cold War propaganda, you can’t take it seriously, yet for me, it still works.
With Janet as the commie, I’m surprised this film didn’t do any Soviet recruitment.
They didn’t even try to make this film believable.
Credits said it was a flop. We’re talking John Wayne and Janet Leigh here. The Duke is my favorite, and as usual I could not tear myself away. Great flick.
it’s great to see a duke film i’ve never seen ! it was’nt to bad and look at the star’s it had! the planes were great! former U.S.A.F man!
I thought I had watched most of John Waynes films, but when I looked at the IMDB database….. I found out…. not hardly….
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/#Actor
I’ve been watching these by mail movie rental. Netflix has a bunch of them. I really liked the 1950′s Hondo movies, which I had not seen.
For years I wanted to see this movie – and I finally did back in the 70s. My Dad was one of the pilots – he flew Janet Leigh’s plane and told me so many stories about the filming, the stars, etc. It is wonderful to be able to watch the movie whenever I want to!
I don’t care what the critics say (never have) it’s a John Wayne movie!! loved it!!!
It’s got John Wayne. More importantly it’s got Janet Leigh, who would turn me into a commie. But really… this movie could be better. Janet Leigh made a rather preposterous commie. Her commie accent is laughable. John Wayne was John Wayne in perhaps the worst possible way.
Even when John Wayne makes a relative clinker of a film, it comes out pretty watchable. Let’s put it this way… I’ve enjoyed John Wayne films a lot more. On the other hand, I’ve seen a lot of films that were worse. I call this movie fair.
Not the best, but certainly not the worst. I especially enjoyed Hans Conried (aka “Snidely Whiplash” from the Rocky and Bullwinkle shows).
Hahaha. Definitely one of the screwier movies I’ve seen. An utterly implausible plotline…especially for a movie with the action title, “Jet Pilot.” But kind of enjoyable as a screwball comedy. Seems like it was written with Bob Hope in mind rather than The Duke. Lots of aerial footage of the Sabre Jet, though…and an extended 1947-style striptease by the young and delicious Janet Leigh…makes this well worth watching. And what’s with that jet-to-jet lovemaking with all its double entendre? How did it make it past the 1950′s censors? Hard to take the old eyeballs off of Janet Leigh and, fortunately, she’s in almost every scene.
When I lived in Los Angeles in the early, I got select TV (an over the air pay movie service on channel 22). After they gave me the box, I turned it on and this was the first movie I saw. Beleive it or not I kept the subscription. Even after seeing the movie
Hehe
Chuck Yeager talks about doing the piloting making this film