Jet Attack (1958)

User Rating:

3.2/10   

Director:

Edward L. Cahn

Writers:

Orville H. Hampton (writer)
Mark Hanna (story)

Release Date:

February 1958 (USA)

Genre:

War | Drama

Tagline:

The most amazing jet story to ever blast the screen!

Plot Keywords:

Beret | Gun | Scientist | Shot | Canyon

Cast

John Agar	...	Capt. Tom Arnett
Audrey Totter	...	Tanya Nikova
Gregory Walcott	...	Lt. Bill Claiborne
James Dobson	...	Lt. 'Sandy' Wilkinson
Leonard Strong	...	Maj. Wan (North Korean)
Nicky Blair	...	Radioman Chick 'Meathead' Lane
Victor Sen Yung	...	Capt. Chon
Joseph Hamilton	...	Dean Olmstead (radio expert)
Guy Prescott	...	Maj. Garver
George Cisar	...	Col. Catlett
Stella Lynn	...	Muju (female guerrilla leader)
Robert Carricart	...	Col. Kuban
Weaver Levy	...	Orderly
Paul Power	...	Phillips
Hal Bogart	...	AP sergeant

Also Known As:

Jet Alert (USA)
Jet Command (USA) (working title)
Jet Pilot (USA) (working title)
Jet Squad (USA) (working title)
Through Hell to Glory (UK)

Runtime:

69 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:U

Company:

Catalina Productions

Trivia:

One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: One of the jets at the "North Korean" airbase is an American F-86 fighter; although it has a red star - the North Korean identification mark - on the fuselage, at the top of the tail assembly at the back of the plane can be clearly seen the words, "California Air National Guard".

Quotes:

[The North Koreans torture Chick to try to make him talk]
Radioman Chick 'Meathead' Lane: Your whole caper's a boodle of bad jive. You're strictly from Squaresville. Ha-ha. What a gas!
Maj. Wan (North Korean): (as he beats Chick) Where are the others? How did you get here? Where are they taking the prisoner?
Radioman Chick 'Meathead' Lane: Crazy.
Maj. Wan (North Korean): We will stay here until he answers... in words I can understand.

Woeful war story

Here's yet another AIP quickie from the fast working hands of Edward L. Cahn. Someday I hope someone makes a film about him, or at least writes a book, because his prodigious output in 1958 and 1959 has never been outdone. Perhaps I'm not giving William Beaudine the credit he deserves...at any rate, this grade Z Korean war 'thriller' stars Audrey Totter as a Russian nurse in love with handsome John Agar. Ms. Totter was fine in her element---film noir---but as a Soviet double agent she just doesn't make the grade. Add in the California locations (complete with a Woody with a Soviet star painted on its side), the world's least convincing set of South Korean partisans (including what appear to be Polynesian dancing girls), and a preposterous finale involving stolen MiGs, and you have a turkey of Ed Woodian proportions.