Jet Pilot (film)

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Jet Pilot is a 1957 American Cold War romance film directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh, and featuring Jay C. Flippen, Paul Fix, and Hans Conried. It was written and produced by Jules Furthman and presented by Howard Hughes. Filming lasted more than 18 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. This was Hughes's last film work before his death of kidney failure on April 5, 1976. 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 (although Siegel's were not used), as did Hughes himself. All were uncredited...

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