Air Defense Command headquarters notified its pilots in January 1955 that the mock MiGs would be operating over portions of the southwestern US. The North American F-86 Sabre appears in the 1956 novel "The Hunters" by James Salter, and the "1958 film of the same name", set in Korea, features North American F-86 Sabres. F-86s feature in the 1957 junior fiction novel "Sabre Pilot" by Stephen W. Meader about a youngster named Kirk Owen who enlists in the USAF and serves as a fighter pilot in the Korean War. F-86s were a feature in the 1958 film "Jet Attack" which was directed by Edward L. Cahn and starred John Agar and Audrey Totter. The film, also released as "Jet Alert" and "Through Hell to Glory", was a drama set in the Korean War about a pair of pilots who parachute behind North Korean lines to rescue a captured scientist. The film, a low budget production, relied heavily on stock footage of F-86s for the aerial scenes. F-86s appear in the 1959 novel "MiG Alley" by Robert Eunson which portrays a pilot Captain Homer 'Mac' McCullough who flies F-86s during the Korean War and is frustrated at being forbidden to engage enemy MiGs beyond the Yalu River. Desmond Bagley's 1965 novel "High Citadel" features F-86 Sabres, which make up the frontline equipment of the air force of the fictional South American country in which the book is set. There are four squadrons of Sabres; two are loyal to the current corrupt government; one is secretly loyal to a reformist politician who is returning from exile to take over the country; and the fourth is secretly loyal to Communist forces who are attempting to kill the politician. The latter part of the novel features a dogfight between a Sabre flown by one of the main characters—a CIA agent and former Sabre pilot who fought in the Korean War—and aircraft of the Communist squadron. F-86F Sabres of the JASDF regularly feature in the Showa era of kaiju films produced by Toho, with the aircraft appearing most prominently during a sequence in "Godzilla" where two Sabres attack the titular monster after he leaves the devastated city of Tokyo. In the 1981 dystopian film "The Last Chase", retired pilot J.G. Williams (played by Burgess Meredith) and his F-86 Sabre play the antagonist in attempting to track down and destroy the protagonist Franklyn Hart (played by Lee Majors).