Jake Speed (1986)

Original title: Jake Speed
Release date: May 30, 1986
Status: Released
Genres: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Runtime: 1h 40min
Producers: Force 10 Productions and Balcor Film Investors

Name: Jake Speed
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Released: 1986-05-30
Rating: 4.9
Cast: Wayne Crawford, Karen Kopins, Dennis Christopher, John Hurt

Directed by Andrew Lane.
Starring Wayne Crawford, Karen Kopins, Dennis Christopher and John Hurt.

More than a myth. Less than a legend. And a bit too big for his boots

4.9

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.