Jet Pilot (1957)
Jet Pilot (1957)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
John Wayne
Col. Jim Shannon
Janet Leigh
Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon
Jay C. Flippen
Maj. Gen. Black
Paul Fix
Maj. Rexford
Richard Rober
FBI Agent George Rivers
Roland Winters
Col. Sokolov
Hans Conried
Col. Matoff
Joyce Compton
Mary Lou Simpson
Ivan Triesault
Gen. Langrad
Denver Pyle
Mr. Simpson
Dorothy Abbott
Girl
Perdita Chandler
Georgie Rexford
Phil Arnold
Bellboy
Josef von Sternberg
Director
Walter Daniels
Production Manager
Jules Furthman
Writer
Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction
Mel Berns
Makeup Department Head
Bronislau Kaper
Composer
Winton C. Hoch
Cinematographer
Darrell Silvera
Set Decoration
Harry Marker
Editor
Howard Hughes
Producer
Michael R. McAdam
Editor
Fred Fleck
Assistant Director
Larry Germain
Hairstylist
Michael Woulfe
Costume Design
Earl A. Wolcott
Sound
Hans F. Koenekamp
Camera Operator
Terry Kellum
Sound
C. Bakaleinikoff
Conductor
Layne Britton
Makeup Artist
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 11, 1957
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 52m
Content RatingG
Budget$9,000,000
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Wiki.
Jet Pilot is a 1957 American Cold War romance film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh. It was written and produced by Jules Furthman, and presented by Howard Hughes. Filming lasted more than eighteen months, beginning in 1949. The last day of shooting was in May 1953, but the Technicolor film was kept out of release by Hughes due to his tinkering until October 1957, by which time Hughes had sold RKO. Universal-International ended up distributing Jet Pilot.The film went through several directorial changes, after Sternberg's work between October 1949 and February 1950. After that, Philip Cochran (supervisor of aerial sequences), Furthman, Edward Killy (unit production manager), Byron Haskin (for the model work), and Don Siegel also directed scenes (Siegel's weren't used), as did Howard Hughes himself. All were uncredited as directors or second unit directors.
Although Jet Pilot was publicized as showcasing the U.S. Air Force's latest jets, by the time it was finally shown, most of the aircraft in the film were obsolescent or obsolete, supplanted by more modern aircraft. In one aerial scene, the two lead characters fly a Lockheed F-94 Starfire to test a radar approach to intercept a propeller driven Convair B-36 bomber.
Jet Pilot was reportedly Howard Hughes's favorite film, one he watched repeatedly in his later years.