JET PILOT

JET PILOT. Joseph von Sternberg, dir. 1951 (production) / 1957 (release). "John Wayne, Janet Leigh, stars.

Note the "flying planes engaged in sexual foreplay, which first threatened the man but finally domesticated the woman" — quoting Michael Rogin, ''Ronald Reagan, The Movie. . .'' (Berkeley: U of CA P, 1987): 265). Cf. and contrast machine sex in S. Kubrick's DR. STRANGELOVE and and 2001: SPACE ODYSSEY.