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During the Korean War, scientist Dean Olmstead (Joseph Hamilton) designs a long-range radio transmitting and tracking device for the United States Air Force. TestsDuring testing of the device over North Korea result in, Olmstead's [[North American B-25 Mitchell]] bomber being shot down. Capt. Tom Arnett (John Agar) leading an escort of [[North American F-86 Sabre]] jet fighters, is unable to prevent the attack. His commanding officer, Col. Catlett ([[George Cisar (actor)|George Cisar]]) plans a rescue of the scientist, whowhom he believes is still alive and may be interrogatedundergoing interrogation by Russian intelligence who wareagents working with the North Koreans.

Arnett and Lt. Bill Clairborn ([[Gregory Walcott]]) are assigned to go into North Korea and bring back Olmstead. After parachuting behind enemy lines, they meet up with guerrilla leader Capt. Chon ([[Victor Sen Yung]]), who takes them to Tanya Nikova ([[Audrey Totter]]), a Russian nurse, who has been working as a spy for the guerrillas. She knows that the scientist may be under care of her boss, Col. Kuban (Robert Carricart), a Russian doctor. After they discover Olmstead's whereabouts and bring him out of the prison camp where he iswas being treated for a concussion, the group is pursued by North Korean Maj. Wan ([[Leonard Strong]]), a North Korean officer. Tanya is killed in the escape attempt, but the two American pilots withand their rescuedthe scientist on board, escape in a pair of North Korean [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15]] jet fighters.

''Jet Attack'' relied heavily on "stock war footage and studio shots".<ref>Pendo 1985, p. 237.</ref> The mismatched footage led to unintentionalunintended continuity errors. {{#tag:ref|In the film, during the attack scene, a [[North American B-25 Mitchell]] bomber inexplictedly turns into a [[Douglas C-47 Skytrain]] transport aircraft.|group=Note}}<ref name="Aeromovies">Santoir, Christian. [http://www.aeromovies.fr/articles.php?lng=en&pg=765 "Jet Attack".] ''Aeromovies''. Retrieved: March 16, 2015.</ref> [[California Air National Guard]] [[North American F-86 Sabre|North American F-86A Sabre]]s from the 196th Fighter Interceptor Squadron stood in for both USAF and North Korean fighters.<ref name="Aeromovies"/>

[[American International Pictures]] released ''Jet Attack'' as a [[double feature]] with ''[[Suicide Battalion]]''. Like many other films of the period that were basedset onin the Korean War, film historian Michael Paris considered it another of the "... features that had little to say that was new; most simply reprised situations common from earlier films and were a blatant attempt to profit from public interest in the war."<ref>Paris 1995, p. 189.</ref>

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