Plaion Jet Pilot - Jet Fighter

Air Force Colonel Shannon (John Wayne) has a spicy mission: he is to monitor the Russian pilot Anna (Janet Leigh), who has fled the USSR with her jet fighter. She is suspected of spying on secret information about the US military for the KGB. But the unequal couple falls in love and flees together to the Soviet Union. The Russians, however, drug Shannon to obtain secret information. Anna steals a fighter jet and flies, rushed through the clouds by Soviet pilots, in a breathtaking hunt back to the USA. It was not until seven years after the end of shooting that "jet fighters" were released in cinemas. The reason: Producer Howard Hughes, real role model for the film "Aviator", was not satisfied with the edited versions by Josef von Sternberg, so that the film had to be revised again and again over this long period.