Touches You

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

**SPOILERS** Voted back in 1978 as one of the 50 worst movies of all times "Jet Attack" doesn't let its audience of bad movie aficionados down in living up to its well deserved title. The utterly ridicules plot has USAF top gun Capt. Tom Arnett, John Agar, and his assistant Let.Claiborne, Gregory Wallcott, together with radioman Chick "Meathead" Lane, Nicky Blair, dropped behind North Korean/Red Chinese lines to rescue top US electronic expert Dean Olmstead, Joseph Hamilton. It was Olmstead who got lost in his observation plane and ended up getting shot down when he strayed over enemy lines. Landing in the middle of a North Korean ambush the boys are rescued by a group of friendly South Korean guerrillas lead by the fearless Capt. Chon, Victor Sen Yung, who takes them to his secret hideout deep in the Korean woods. It at the hideout that we get to meet an old flame of Capt. Arnett Soviet nurse Tanya Nikova, Audrey Totter, who's secretly working for the US as a spy. It's also there that Meathead who seems to be, with his unintelligible beatnik-like rambling, on some kind of very strong and exotic weed gets to meet the sexy Korean hula dancer Muju, Stalla Lynn. Muju not only gets Meathead distracted with her hot and sexy dance number but unable to keep on message, or mission, in rescuing Olmstead from the North Koreas. The Commies have the critically injured Olmstead hidden in a secret MASH-like military hospital deep behind their front-lines. It's feared by the US military bass that if Olmstead is made to talk by his North Korean captors he'll reveal the secret that he discovered about radio waves, in tracking attacking aircraft, that will in effect give the Commies, North Korean & Red Chinese, the edge in winning the now stalemated Korean War!Finally with the help of Tanya the boys find where the Commies are holding Olmstead and after a wild gun battle make it to a North Korean military air field. It's there that their to be rescued by helicopter by Capt. Arnett's good friend Let. Sandy Wilkinson, James Dobson. In another wild shootout with the North Koreans Sandy's copter is shot down, with him badly wounded, thus having both Sandy and Cap. Arnett together with the stretcher bound Olmstead make their escape on two hijacked North Korean MIGS!***SPOILERS*** Having no trouble at all in operating the very difficult MIGS, whom both Capt. Arnett and Let. Sandy Wilkinson never flew before, The captain and his passenger Dean Olmstead easily make it back to base-with the exception of Sandy who died ramming an attacking Commie MIG-despite not having on pilot helmets or oxygen masks that are a must in being able to successfully and safely operate the fighter planes!

Real life war hero John Agar stars in this ridiculous D picture from American-International about a rescue mission during the Korean War. For reasons I cannot fathom after watching this film, radioman Joseph Hamilton who is captured in North Korea is one very valuable asset. In fact the USA and the ROK forces lead an all out effort to rescue him, topped off with a Jet Attack.John Agar leads the rescue team that is composed of Americans and Koreans both ROK regular forces and guerrillas. Helping out is a Russian double agent played by Audrey Totter. Both Agar and Totter and the whole cast in fact have that look of anxiety throughout like their paychecks for this double gobbler might not clear.Rescuing this radioman in Jet Attack turns out to be very costly. And in the end you won't really care why it was so important.

I chose to watch this film precisely because it was featured in the book "The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time". Call me a weirdo, but I have taken great pains to try to see all 50 and this film marks about the 40th film I have seen from the book.By the way, this movie could easily be confused with John Wayne's JET PILOT--the second worst film Wayne ever made (after THE CONQUEROR) and a great film to watch for laughs. The titles and plots are similar but JET ATTACK stars John Agar--an almost guarantee that this will be a bad film, as he had a very long string of stinkers to his credits following an initially promising career.A top scientist is testing out a machine that supposedly will be able to tap into the enemy's broadcasts--making it easy to know when the Reds are planning something. However, the pilot of this A-26 airplane is apparently an idiot and they wander too far over enemy territory and are shot down--which is odd, as the machine was designed to intercept enemy broadcasts--including orders given to their pilots! For some odd reason, a group of completely untrained soldiers are sent in to rescue the scientist (since he apparently did NOT write down any of his work--now THAT made sense!). You'd think they'd send in commandos or the Rangers or Rambo but instead they take well-trained fighter pilots and parachute them into enemy territory to do reconnaissance. In addition to the pilots, they send a few others who seem like morons, such as a guy who must be the brother of Maynard G. Krebs from "Dobie Gillis". These are just the sort I'd send on an ultra-important top secret mission! Once behind enemy lines, they meet up with sexy Audrey Totter who is supposed to be a White Russian who leads a resistance group. Totter's accent and look is about as convincing as a Russian as if they'd cast Janet Leigh in such a role. Oh, wait...Ms. Leigh she played a Russian who defected in JET PILOT!! So what do Totter and her comrades do when they meet the Americans? Yep, they have a party--complete with belly dancing! If any of this makes sense to you, then I suggest that you should visit your friendly neighborhood psychiatrist.Totter apparently works for the Russian military and she is able to infiltrate the hospital in which the scientist is being held. Her plan is to fake the scientist's death and use the Americans (dresses like orderlies) to take the egghead with them. And, thanks to help from South Korean sympathizers, this all takes place with relative ease. After all, it's only a military hospital filled with soldiers.The rest of the film is a mad dash towards freedom. Fortunately, the Krebs-like character is left behind and this means a slow and painful death at the hands of his captors. All in all, this is my favorite part of the film but I wished they'd shown him being tortured a bit more--he WAS a really, really annoying character (sort of like a 50s version of Jar-Jar). Unfortunately, the rest of them manage to make it back--as I was rooting for the Commies! It takes some really annoying characters to get me to root for them Commies!! So is this film bad enough to have made the inglorious list of the 50 worst? I still think that John Wayne's 2950s F-86 fighter film, JET PILOT, was worse--mostly because it starred actors that should have known better and had a much larger budget (having been made for RKO instead of American-International, like JET ATTACK). Plus the dialog and script was actually worse in JET PILOT. I really think that it didn't get included in the book for two reasons. First, THE CONQUEROR was actually worse and I assume Harry Medved didn't want to include two John Wayne flicks in his wonderful book. Second, for decades crazy ol' Howard Hughes would not allow JET PILOT to be shown after its initial release (the same for THE CONQUEROR--but Medved somehow got to see it), so he may not have even had a chance to see the film. Both airplane films, however, are brainless and seem to have been written by 6 year-olds. My final verdict--probably not quite bad enough to make the list but certainly a very bad film. Laughably bad.By the way, the average viewer could care less about this, but all the 'Russian' airplanes in this movie and JET PILOT are American fighter planes. The F-86 looked a bit like the Russian MiG-15, so it's at least closer than the Lockheed Shooting Star that stood in for a Russian Fighter plane in JET PILOT.

If you're a fan of Mr. Agar, you might derive some small enjoyment out of his leading man role in this film and his character's (an all American pilot named Captain Tom Arnett) unlikely on-screen romance with Audrey Totter's Russian double agent character named Tanya Nikova. Also there a few amusing scenes featuring Nickly Balir as Radioman Chick 'Meathead' Lane.Aside from that, this is a very disappointing Korean war film with an unlikely premise - one in which far too many people are killed to try and save one man.