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Lightning Jack is a Australien film of genre Comedy directed by Paul Hogan released in USA on 11 march 1994 with Paul Hogan
Lightning Jack (1994)
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Add to a movie listLightning Jack is a 1994 Western comedy film written by and starring Paul Hogan, as well as Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Beverly D'Angelo.
Synopsis
Paul Hogan plays Lightning Jack Kane, a long-sighted Australian outlaw in the American west, with his horse, Mate. After the rest of the gang he is a member of is killed in a robbery-gone-wrong, Jack survives only to read of the events in the newspaper that he was nothing next to others. Annoyed at not being recognised as an outlaw, Jack attempts a robbery by himself, and ends up taking young mute Ben Doyle (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) as a hostage. He later discovers that, tired of never having been treated with respect due to his disability, Ben wishes to join him.Actors
Paul Hogan
(Lightning Jack Kane)
Cuba Gooding Jr.
(Ben Doyle)
Beverly D'Angelo
(Lana Castel)
Ben Cooper
Pat Hingle
(U.S. Marshal Dan Kurtz)
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