The Quest is a 1996 film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Roger Moore, Janet Gunn, and James Remar. The film is Van Damme's directorial debut. The plot revolves around an international martial arts tournament, with a storyline similar to that of Bloodsport. It was originally penned by Frank Dux. It's a rework of a script Frank Dux wrote entitled "The Kumite", which ended Dux and Van Damme's friendship.
Van Damme plays Christopher Dubois, a 1925 Ne...
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The Quest is a 1996 film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Roger Moore, Janet Gunn, and James Remar. The film is Van Damme's directorial debut. The plot revolves around an international martial arts tournament, with a storyline similar to that of Bloodsport. It was originally penned by Frank Dux. It's a rework of a script Frank Dux wrote entitled "The Kumite", which ended Dux and Van Damme's friendship.
Van Damme plays Christopher Dubois, a 1925 New York pickpocket who must escape the city by stowing away on a boat, he is eventually found out by the crew and imprisoned by smugglers and pirates. He is rescued by a mercenary Englishman, Lord Edgar Dobbs (Roger Moore), - who then sells Dubois into slavery on an island where Dubois is trained in Muay Thai fighting. Dobbs later assists (and to some extent exploits) Dubois, buying Dubois' freedom so the now expert fighter can represent the United States in a Kumite-like tournament called the Ghang-gheng, held in the Lost City of Tibet, where...
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