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Jake Speed
Film / 1986

Jake Speed

Directed by Andrew Lane
ActionComedyThriller

★ 4.6/10Audience rating

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 Africa to see if he's …

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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 Africa to see if he's up to the task.

Cast

Wayne CrawfordJake Speed Karen KopinsMargaret Winston Dennis ChristopherDesmond Floyd John HurtSyd Leon AmesPop Winston Roy LondonMaurice Donna PescowWendy Barry PrimusLawrence Monte MarkhamMr Winston Millie PerkinsMrs Winston Rebecca AshleyMaureen Winston Alan ShearmanRodrigo
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Karl JohnsonCharles Sal ViscusoNews stand Attendant Ken LernerKen Peter FoxPriest Ian YuleBill Smith Ken GampuJoe Smith Joseph RibeiroNigel Jean-Marc MorelParis Gunman #1 Bernard CrombeyParis Gunman #2 Lisa LucasGirlfriend #1 Robert WinleyRowdy #2

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