昨夜在凤凰电影看到这部老片子，看到女主角，为之惊动。很奇怪她为何如此低调，按她的容颜和演技本应名声大震、影史留名才是。
为何？以下内容看过即可明白。
关于电影：
Directed by Andrew Lane
Produced by Wayne Crawford
Andrew Lane
William Fay
Written by Wayne Crawford &
Andrew Lane
Starring Wayne Crawford
Dennis Christopher
Karen Kopins
John Hurt
Leon Ames
Roy London
Donna Pescow
Barry Primus
Music by Mark Snow
Cinematography Bryan Loftus
Editing by Michael Ripps
Fred Stafford
Distributed by New World Pictures
Release date(s) May 30, 1986 (USA)
Running time 100 min.
Language English
Budget Unknown
Gross revenue $1,943,751 (USA)
Jake Speed is a 1986 action/comedy film directed by Andrew Lane, produced by Lane, Wayne Crawford (Lane's producing partner and friend), and William Fay, written by Lane and Crawford, and starring Crawford in the title role. Because of this, many viewers felt that this was a vanity project for Crawford, even though the film has found a cult following on video despite its initial box-office failure (despite it being marketed as New World's big summer action film).
Plot
In Paris, a girl by the name of Maureen Winston (Becca C. Ashley) is abducted by two evil-looking men. While her family prays for her safe return, Maureen's father heaps guilt on her sister Margaret (Karen Kopins), since she convinced her to go see the world. However, Margaret's grandfather (Leon Ames) has an idea: call for Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) to go and rescue her. However, there's one problem: Jake Speed is a character in a series of 40's-style pulp fiction novels similar to those recounting the exploits of Doc Savage and Remo Williams, and doesn't exist.
However, Jake Speed does exist, as Margaret finds out when he leaves a note for her to meet him and his sidekick, Desmond Floyd (Dennis Christopher), in a tough Paris bar. The novels, as Margaret finds out, are based on Jake and Des's real life adventures, and they work for nothing, seeing action and excitement (and another novel) as their reward.
Jake reveals that Maureen was kidnapped by white slavers, and is being held in an African country. Jake, Des, and Margaret fly to the nation, which is in the middle of a civil war, in order to rescue her. Many twists and turns later, we find out that Jake's archenemy, the evil, perverted, murderous Englishman Sid (John Hurt), is behind the ring, and soon, Margaret becomes a part of it. Jake and Des must now rescue both Maureen and Margaret, stop Sid, and help the girls get out in one piece, while dealing with warring factions, pits of lions, and machine gun-firing helicopters.
关于女主角：
Karen Kopins Shaw (born circa March 1958) is an American actress, whose acting career was mostly under her maiden name. She played minor roles in various television shows and also appeared in films, most notably Once Bitten.
She was Miss Connecticut 1977, having entered the pageant as Miss Ridgefield. Kopins graduated from Marymount College before moving to California to pursue an acting career.
Kopins was cast as one of Charlie's Angels in the unaired spinoff Angels '88.
In 1990 she married her high-school-sweetheart Mark Shaw, with whom she now has four children. The family resides in Redding, Connecticut.
Selected filmography
* Once Bitten (1985) as Robin Pierce
* Fast Forward (1985) as Susan Granger
* Creator (1985) as Lucy
* Jake Speed (1986) as Margaret Winston
* Angels '88 (1988) as Trisha Lawrence
* The Tracker (1988) as Sarah Bolton
* Dallas (1988–1989, recurring) as Kay Lloyd
* Troop Beverly Hills (1989) as Lisa
* Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again (1990) as Veronica Lodge
* Lady in Waiting (1994) as Fiona Richards
External links
* Karen Kopins at the Internet Movie Database
* Karen Kopins at TV.com
* Karen Kopins Shaw at MySpace.com
* KarenKopins.com
