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Jet Pilot (1950-1957): This 15-minute Cinemascope film shows the view from the cockpit as a jet airliner takes off, circles New York City and lands again, to a soundtrack by Elmer Bernstein. Good views of the Statue of Liberty. |
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Jet Pilot (1950-1957): A Russian lady spy falls for an American pilot. Lamentably dull and stupid romantic actioner of which all concerned should be thoroughly ashamed, especially as it took seven years to complete and is not even technically competent. |
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Jet Pilot (1950-1957): Industrial footage of the development of a new furnace gasjet pilot light system, taken at the Piscataway, NJ Westinghouse factory. |
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Jet Pilot (1950-1957): George Kennedy comes over to your house, sits in front of your TV set, and pretends he's flying a plane. Then he calls Jane Wyman long distance on your phone and raids your icebox. Entertaining but expensive.
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Jet Pilot (1950-1957): An overlooked landmark of 50’s American cinema, Jet Pilot literally gives wings to the road movie genre. The production was famously troubled, and over a seven year period the film sported seven different directors and seven completely different casts. The theatrical version was an imaginative pastiche, built from scraps of footage filmed over the seven years of production. The fact that the titular pilot was played by a different actor in every scene was hailed by critics as a bold post-modern retelling of the "Everyman" fable. The multiple-actors gimmick was later put to good use in Luis Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) and Todd Solondz's Palindromes (2004). |
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Jet Pilot (1950-1957): The Right Stuff meets Top Gun several decades earlier, this tale of a daring test pilot seems positively tame compared to its modern cousins. Features wooden acting interspliced with stock footage provided by the US Air Force. Originally shot in black and white, the film was remastered in Technicolour in 1957. |
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None of the synopses above could possibly be legitimate! |
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I give up! What is the answer? |
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