Jake Speed (1986)

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

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.

campylightheartedcomedicadventuroustongue-in-cheekfast-pacedwhimsical

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)

Trailer

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