Jake Speed (1986)

Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, Karen Kopins, John Hurt, Leon Ames ... see more  , Donna Pescow , Roy London , Barry Primus , Monte Markham , Alan Shearman , Rebecca Ashley , Franz Dobrowsky , Peter Fox , Ken Gampu , Karl Johnson , Ken Lerner , Lisa Lucas , Millie Perkins , Joe Ribiero , Jason Ronard , Sal Viscuso , Robert Winley , Ian Yule , Will Bernard , Bernard Crombey , Thys Du Plooy , Ivan Joseph , Etienne LeFoulon , Jean-Pierre Lorit , June Maforimbo , Vincent Memeth , Jean-Marc Morel , Mark Orthwaite , Nancy Riach , Wendy Stockle , Sammy Davis , Andrew Lane

An adventure tale for movie buffs, Jake Speed deftly lifts scenes from detective films of the '40s through the '70s to bring an added dimension to its spoof of the detective and adventure genres. When... read more  a family gets word that their daughter has been kidnapped in Paris, her father comments that they should get "Jake Speed" to find her. However, Jake is a comic strip character, and the reaction is that he might as well ask for Batman. But lo-and-behold, the other daughter Margaret (Karen Kopins) gets a message to meet Speed (Wayne Crawford) and his author, Remo (Dennis Christopher), and the men tell her they must go to Africa, where her sister is being held. After a certain amount of trial and error, they eventually find the nation where she's being held -- which happens to be in the middle of a revolution. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi