Countryman (1982)

Director
Dickie Jobson

Main cast
Countryman; Hiram Keller

Genres
Action, Foreign

Description
A young woman crash-lands her plane in Jamaica. A local named Countryman rescues her and leads her away from the authorities, who have fabricated a story about the plane, involving drug and arms smuggling by the CIA, in order to gain popularity in an upcoming election.


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