I love this movie so much

Wonderful character development!

Really Surprised!

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I personally disagree with the ones that say that this is bad in the same way as ''The Conqueror''. Sure it's bad, but it more looked a comedy than a war movie.John Wayne plays a US Air Force Colonel that is forced to escort a defecting soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) to Russia, and then all hell breaks loose, and in a funny way. Wayne and Leigh even fall in love, and they share even some nights out. Even when they end in Russia the comedy comes out of nowhere! Paul Fix is the comic relief while Hans Conried did his best with the material he was given.However there was a good thing about this movie (that's why I rated it 7); the nice figther planes and the aerial shots, very ahead of its time (made in 1951, but not released until 1957).

. . . John Wayne compliments Janet Leigh on her JET PILOT producer Howard Hughes-designed twin-torpedo brassiere. She's just taken a shower in his bathroom without Norman Bates intervening, while Mr. Wayne struggles to debrief her (as the KGB lingerie budget for vixen triple agents seems rather skimpy). Soon Wayne's colonel character gets shanghaied into sleeping with the enemy, despite complaining, "General, I'm a jet man--NOT a gigolo!" Certainly this is true throughout Rooster's film career. He always looked like a fish-out-of-water around women, unless they were "tomboys" who behaved like "one of the guys." So when John feeds Janet one of his likely Real Life pick-up lines, such as, "Lady, you sure are the Peruvian donuts," it's not hard to see why none of his many Real Life wives were native speakers of English. The general is assured that the aged 50-plus colonel will enjoy "perfect sex antagonism" with Leigh's triple agent Anna-Olga-Nestingdoll because of their Generation Gap (she's almost old enough to be Wayne's late-life "accidental" daughter, slightly grown up). However, the beauty of this flick's casting is that puzzling over this February-December pairing distracts some viewers from second-guessing whether Wayne strikes them as being likely for the other half of his gigolo equation: that is, a JET PILOT.

As a film, this is pretty awful: a crude piece of American patriotism with a stereotypical view of the Soviet Union shown at the height of the Cold War. In fact, the work was produced by RKO in 1950 which was owned by Howard Hughes but, by the time it was released in 1957, Hughes had sold RKO and the film was released by Universal. It is presented as a kind of old-fashioned rom-com with John Wayne (a strong anti- communist) playing a United State Air Force colonel opposite Janet Leigh who is appallingly miscast as a Soviet defector (she makes no attempt at a Russian accent).For aviation buffs, however, the film has some interest. The USAF was very helpful and we see a great deal of the the North American F-86 Sabre in single, paired and formation manoeuvres. One sequence features a night interception of a Convair B-36 Peacemaker by a Lockheed F-94 Starfire. We even have the inclusion of the last two flights of the first Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis", launched from a Boeing B-50 Superfortress, representing the part of a Soviet "parasite fighter", as well as some stunt flying by the Bell X-1's most famous pilot Chuck Yeager.

This whole story line is preposterous, The very idea that a defecting Soviet pilot would be flying our very latest fighter after just a few days after coming over is ridiculous. It wouldn't happen in a 100 years. In the 50s when this was filmed was the height of the cold war and our military people were paranoid about our military hardware. Aside from security issues it takes years before our own trainees crawl into a jet cockpit and remember this was the 50s.....America did not have female combat pilots till about 30 years later. The Air Force would never just take someones word that they were A qualified pilot. This movie is not hard to watch. Its photographed well. You just have to take the ultra fantasy story line with a grain of salt.