The Quest

Chris embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery that spans the globe. Kidnapped and enslaved by gun smugglers…

• Director:Jean-Claude Van Damme
• Genre:Action / Adventure / Thriller
• Runtime:91 minutes

Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme : Christopher Dubois
Roger Moore : Lord Edgar Dobbs
James Remar : Maxie Devine
Janet Gunn : Carrie Newton
Jack McGee : Harry Smythe

Christopher Dubois (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a pickpocket living in 1925 New York. Orphaned as a child, Dubois looks after a large group of young orphans by performing cons and stealing. After stealing a large sum of money from a group of gangsters, Dubois and the children are found by the gangsters. Dubois is able to subdue the gangsters with his physical skill, but the struggle draws the attention of the police. After promising to return to the children, Dubois escapes the ensuing police by stowing away on a boat. He is eventually found out by the crew and imprisoned by gun smugglers and pirates and forced into physical labor. Eventually, the crew decides Dubois is no longer need. But before he can be killed, the pirate ship is attacked and boarded by a mercenary Englishman, Lord Edgar Dobbs (Roger Moore). After saving each others lives, Dobbs agrees to help Dubois return home, but deceives him and sells Dubois into slavery on an island near Siam, where Dubois is trained in Muay Thai fighting.

After 6 months, Dobbs and his partner Harry Smythe (Jack McGee) find Dubois fighting in a Muay Thai match and see that he has become a skilled fighter. 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 representatives of different countries like Germany, Soviet Union, Scotland, Spain, Turkey, Brazil, Siam, Korea, Greece, France, China, Japan, Okinawa, Africa, and Mongolia fight in elimination bouts, and the winner of the tournament receives a valuable statue, the Golden Dragon. Along for the journey are American reporter Carrie Newton (Janet Gunn) and heavyweight boxing champion Maxie Devine (James Remar).

Dubois ultimately wins the tournament by defeating the representative of Mongolia, but doesn’t accept the Golden Dragon. Instead he trades it for the lives of Dobbs and his comrade Harry, who were sentenced to death for trying to steal the Golden Dragon. Read more

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