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Director:
Writer:
Jules Furthman (written by)
Release Date:
October 1957 (USA) more
Tagline:
Greatest Air Spectacle of the Jet Age! Earth-shaking, sky-shattering ... SO BIG it took years to make! more
Plot:
Air Force Colonel Shannon is assigned to escort defecting Soviet pilot Anna. He falls in love with her... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Actress Janet Leigh Dies at 77
(From IMDb News. 4 October 2004)
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so dumb it's great! more (34 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | John Wayne | ... | Col. Jim Shannon |
 | Janet Leigh | ... | Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief |
 | Jay C. Flippen | ... | Maj. Gen. Black |
| Paul Fix | ... | Maj. Rexford |
| Richard Rober | ... | FBI Agent George Rivers |
| Roland Winters | ... | Col. Sokolov |
| Hans Conried | ... | Col. Matoff |
| Ivan Triesault | ... | Gen. Langrad |
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Runtime:
112 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.00 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (original rating) | USA:G (re-rating) (1974) | West Germany:12 (nf) | Finland:K-12
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In a later flight, his plane's engine lost a turbine disk during a routine climb, forcing a dead-stick landing. more
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Continuity: When Anna climbs in the two seat jet, there is a canopy support visible. When she taxis away and lowers the canopy the support is missing. The support is used to prevent the canopy from accidentally closing when ground crew are working on the plane. more
Quotes:
Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon: [screaming at Jim] Give me back my skirt! more
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Featured in Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies (2000) (TV) more
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Unlike John Wayne's more famous movie turkey, The Conquerer, this film is so bad that it is lots of fun to watch. It is incredibly poorly written (even for an RKO picture) and makes his earlier Republic Films look like masterpieces by comparison (and a few actually were). And, combined with the terrible dialog and dopey plot is the absolute worst performance of Janet Leigh's life! She plays a Russian Airforce pilot with less conviction than perhaps any actress could have approached the role. Not once does she even give the least hint of a Russian accent, though through the use of very thick sweaters she DOES appear to be the poster girl for Playboy Magazine. This nymphet role is combined with stoic "Russian" dialog that sound like it's right out of a grade school play. It's unintentionally hilarious.
As for Wayne, he pretty much plays himself. A REALLY, REALLY horny self, that is! FYI--Apparently the Russians flew Lockheed Shooting Stars (F-80s). You see, when you stick a red star on it, it becomes the spitting image of a MIG-15. Well, that is if you squint REALLY hard and maybe get REALLY drunk first and hit yourself on the head with a frying pan, and,...