
John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.

as Col. Jim Shannon

as Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief

as Maj. Gen. Black

as Maj. Rexford

as FBI Agent George Rivers

as Col. Sokolov

as Col. Matoff

as Gen. Dimitri Langrad

as Mary Lou Simpson

as Mr. Simpson

as Georgie Rexford