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Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a young girl is kidnapped and her sister (Karen Kopins) begs the real-life Speed for help, he must find a way to be as gallant as the book hero whose creation he's inspired. Accompanied by the victim's sibling, Speed flies to ...
While vacationing in Paris with some friends, young carefree student Maureen Winston is abducted in broad daylight by a gang of white slavers. Her family is desperate, especially her guilt-ridden older sister Margaret, who was the one who talked Maureen into taking a trip to see Europe. Despite some comforting words, the State Department has no ...
Keith Kimbell Which films at the 77th Cannes Film Festival wowed our critics, and which ones failed to deliver? We recap the just-concluded festival with a list of award winners and review summaries for dozens of films making their world premieres in Cannes, including new titles from David Cronenberg, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold, Kevin Costner, Jia Zhang-Ke, Ali Abbasi, Michel Hazanavicius ...
When her sister is taken by a gang of white slavers, Margaret (Karen Kopins, Troop Beverly Hills) knows she needs a hero with a difference to bring her home. Enter Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford, Barracuda), leaping from the pages of pulp thriller novels and into the real world. With Margaret in tow and his trusty sidekick Desmond Floyd (Dennis Christopher, Chariots of Fire) in tow, Jake arrives ...
An interestingly mid-1980's action/adventure/comedy film. Googleplay Movies & Tv says that this movie is rated R, and yet I watched for free with ads on TubiTv where the rating was PG.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 6, 2020. One of the worst of the many '80s action flicks. Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 15, 2019. As such, it is a movie that takes a little too ...
Brief Synopsis. When a girl is kidnapped by slavers, her sister goes to the 1940s pulp fiction hero Jake Speed for help. She and Jake, who is the star of a popular adventure series, write the latest episode of his story as they travel to Africa to rescue her sister.
