
Exploding with all the power of the jet age... with all the passion of a daring love story!
1957 1 hour 52 minutesU.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon is tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and marrying her, 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.












11th October 1957
69 years ago
1 hour 52 minutes
Finishes at 7:25am
$9,000,000 ($106,060,500 today)
Revenue unknown



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