"Action Jackson" is a 1988 action film directed by Craig R. Baxley and starring Carl Weathers, Vanity, Craig T. Nelson, and Sharon Stone. Paula Abdul was the choreographer. The film was released by Lorimar Film Entertainment.
Detroit Police Detective and Sergeant Jericho Jackson, known as "Action Jackson", was a Lieutenant in the police force but demoted because of a case he headed involving the son of businessman Peter Dellaplane. After his demo...
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"Action Jackson" is a 1988 action film directed by Craig R. Baxley and starring Carl Weathers, Vanity, Craig T. Nelson, and Sharon Stone. Paula Abdul was the choreographer. The film was released by Lorimar Film Entertainment.
Detroit Police Detective and Sergeant Jericho Jackson, known as "Action Jackson", was a Lieutenant in the police force but demoted because of a case he headed involving the son of businessman Peter Dellaplane. After his demotion, "Action Jackson" begins investigating murders of Union members for Dellaplane's company. Dellaplane, it is discovered, is murdering his way to power, hiring assassins to kill unfriendly Union members.
Jackson has the help of a mistress of Peter Dellaplane, a singer named Sydney Ash, who is a heroin addict. Jackson is framed for murdering Peter Dellaplane's wife and finds himself on the run from the police. He receives help from an informant and finds a way to get to Delleplane. The showdown leads to Jackson and Dellaplane at the latter's...
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