The spy plot in the movie is a bit weak. However, John Wayne is in prime form here, and the onscreen romance between his character and Janet Leigh's works well. It is a happy go lucky cold war love story that is enjoyable to watch. The footage of early jets in close maneuver is also worthwhile.

I saw this film in the early 80s when I was in art school. I was transfixed. The flying grabbed me so hard that when I went home that night, I was pretending that my wheezy 1966 VW bug was a jet doing arabesques in the sky, which may have made for some odd looking driving. Maybe this is a film you have to see on a screen rather than on TV, but for me the flying WAS the movie. The rest was just an excuse to hang it together and promote an audience.Perhaps I should add that my dad was a pilot and when I was three, he took me up and did corkscrews and dives and flew upside down and I loved it, I was sworn to secrecy to never tell my mother who had made him quit being a crop duster because I was on the way. No roller-coaster has ever lived up to it and all my flying since then has been conventional. However, I found later from my fellow students that few of them drove home in a normal way that night.

This whole story line is preposterous, The very idea that a defecting Soviet pilot would be flying our very latest fighter after just a few days after coming over is ridiculous. It wouldn't happen in a 100 years. In the 50s when this was filmed was the height of the cold war and our military people were paranoid about our military hardware. Aside from security issues it takes years before our own trainees crawl into a jet cockpit and remember this was the 50s.....America did not have female combat pilots till about 30 years later. The Air Force would never just take someones word that they were A qualified pilot. This movie is not hard to watch. Its photographed well. You just have to take the ultra fantasy story line with a grain of salt.

Not much to say here, and that's about exactly what this flic deserves. But I wonder what it would've been considered if released back when it was written; Just as poor or rather interesting?Well I'm a movie lover, not a movie reviewer, but I can easily say this was a dog.I bet even John & Janet were rather embarrassed by this one.Still, I watched it and found myself quite taken by Janet Leigh's beauty and enchanting eyes, along with Johnny's youthful amorousity.The plot(?) is a sham, the "Commies" are treated as the usual moron's we were taught to believe them to be in every other propaganda flic, but it still serves to remind us of a time when even seduction was innocently provocative.Return to an earlier time while viewing this comedy-that-never-was, and please don't expect to walk away with a moral, or inspired.It's just a 'cute' way to blow an hour or two, and to remember what Studs Janet and John were in their day....get the popcorn popping' and leave the Kleenex on the shelf, you won't need it for this one.