Lightning Jack

Is this Kane able?

Lightning Jack is directed by Simon Wincer and written by Paul Hogan. Hogan stars as the title character and hes supported by Cuba Gooding Jr., Beverly DAngelo, Pat Hingle and L.Q. Jones. Music is by Bruce Rowland and cinematography by David Eggby.

Having burst onto the scene in movie world with Crocodile Dundee in 1986, Paul Hogan it seemed was set for a tilt at being a fully fledged film star. As it transpired, in spite of the first Dundee sequel proving popular, Hogan didnt have much of a film career at all. So its with great interest to revisit his non Dundee films.

Lightning Jack is a comedy Western that pitches Hogan as outlaw Lightning Jack Kane, an Australian in the Old Wild West of America. He hankers to...

Crocodile Dundee in the Old West

When Cole Youngers gang is involved in a robbery-gone-wrong in a town in the Southwest, the lone survivor, Jack Kane (Paul Hogan), acquires a mute newbie partner (Cuba Gooding Jr.). He wants to make one last big score before moving to New York with his saloon lass (Beverly D'Angelo).

"Lightning Jack" (1994) is an amusing Western starring Hogan, but its not an all-out comedy like, say, Blazing Saddles. Ball-park comparisons include The War Wagon, Sam Whiskey, Something Big, "Cattle Annie and Little Britches," Maverick and The Lone Ranger. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is another, but that ones a little more serious.

While not great and relatively slow-moving, the locations are excellent an...