Abstract
Some historians argue that heaps of weaponry along with stealth and deception stand as emblems of the Cold War. But sexual intimacy, conspicuous consumption, and aviation technology also inserted themselves into the perfect safetly of American domestic bliss. This paper will analyze how the eccentric Cold War romantic comedy Jet Pilot (1957) so associated with the compulsiveness of Howard Hughes, produced and written by Jules Furthman, directed ( partially) by Josef von Sternburg and starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh, reflects all these themes making it the paradigmatic Cold Film that remains a camp classic from the American popular cultyre of the 1950s.
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A cluster of Hollywood Cold War movies made in the 1950s turn on the moral necessity of deceit for the sake of virtue, on lying for truth, and transferred these easy inversions, to the still tender taboos of sex, so that sexual intimacy was invaded by politics and the perfect safety of American domesticity politicized
Hughes hired a second team to update aerial footage provided by the USAF and even brought back the actors seven years after initial filming had commenced. His biographer Richard Hack wrote that “John Wayne and Janet Leigh looked as if they had been stalled in time capsules, their youth standing in odd playback compared to their current films running in the theaters at the same time.”[4]. In the interim several cast members had even died
Summary
The paper will analyze how the peculiar Cold War romance Jet Pilot (1957), funded by Howard Hughes, produced and written by Jules Furthman, directed by Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel) and starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh, reflects these themes as well as other elements in the Cold War popular culture of 1950s, making it the paradigmatic Cold War film. Howard Hughes and The Cold War Aviation Film Jet Pilot (1957)
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