
Air Force Colonel Shannon is assigned to escort defecting Soviet pilot Anna. He falls in love with her, but she is scheming to lure him back to the USSR. But Shannon has a scheme of his own.... (Full plot summary below)
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Air Force Colonel Shannon is assigned to escort defecting Soviet pilot Anna. He falls in love with her, but she is scheming to lure him back to the USSR. But Shannon has a scheme of his own.
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| CinePassionFernando F. CroceSternberg uses the espionage and counter-espionage of Jules Furthman's screenplay to depict the mysteries of relationships |
| User ReviewPhenyezia OOutstanding movie John Wayne is my family favorite actor |
| User ReviewZoran SThis is a ludicrous, silly, and beautifully stylized piece of camp. Or is it high-minded formalism? It's hard to tell the difference when, for example, Janet Leigh undresses and the soundtrack is overtaken by loud, noisy fighter jets. It's practically a Godardian moment. Or how about when Leigh's romantic interest in Wayne is distracted by a large sizzling steak which Von Sternberg expertly fetishizes? Perhaps the worst film about the Cold War--and therefore the most appropriate. |
| User ReviewJohn YJanet Leigh is painful to watch as a Soviet jet pilot, but the rest of the film is really good. |
| User ReviewTristan WThe movies you find flipping through channels. Im not a big John Wayne fan, but he did a decent job in this. Janet Leigh did a good job in it. The dialogue was a bit cheesy at times. It was good enough to keep watching it, but not one I would watch again. |
| User ReviewAnthony CZoom! Zoom! John Wayne as an air force jet jockey and Janet Leigh as the mystery russian pilot. Really good aerial scenes in the film thanks to the US Air Force. |
| User ReviewGregory WJohn Wayne plays an Air Force Col. Jim Shannon who gets a surprise landing at his base by none other Janet Leigh (who was not overly convincing as a Russian Soviet Pilot because not once does she even give the least hint of a Russian accent.) The air force wants to get information out of her and give John Wayne the job. She proves to be a tough nut to crack so they decide to deport her but the Duke has fallen for her and knowing that they cannot deport the wife of an American Citizen, he marries her only to find out after they are married she is a spy and it's all just a Russian plot to get information to take back to the mother land. |
| User ReviewErik WJohn Wayne and Janet Leigh make an amusing couple in this movie. Some of the aerial photography in this movie is great, including a sequence involving a B-36 Peacemaker. The story however is kind of lame and slow at times. It's not all bad though. |
| User ReviewDavid Bsomething more of a romance than I was expecting, but entertaining enough, John Wayne is as good as ever, Janet Leigh is rather lovely (though less convnincing as a Russian than Black Widow in Iron Man 2...) and the in the air shots of the jets are just beautiful |
| User ReviewMark Hthe flight scenes were all nicely shot though that story was a bit old fashioned it was still a nice film |