Underplayed Gems

Jake Speed (1986)

Jake Speed poster
Directed by
Andrew Lane
Genre
action film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
PG
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A fictional adventurer who lives by the rules of old adventure stories takes on the job of saving a woman who was taken. He battles a group of criminals who are selling people against the backdrop of a country torn apart by war.

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What happens

Jake Speed is a 1986 American action adventure comedy film directed and produced by Andrew Lane, with Wayne Crawford, and William Fay. It was written by Lane and Crawford, and starred Crawford in the title role, alongside Dennis Christopher, Karen Kopins and John Hurt. In the film, a pulp fiction-styled adventurer is tasked with rescuing a kidnapped girl. He has to face a white slavery ring during its host country's civil war. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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