Protecting the King

At 4, Elvis became my brother. At 16, my brother became The King.
Based on a true story. Sex, drugs and violence–they’re all part of the job when you’re working for The King of Rock & Roll. And when you’re only 16, the on-the-job training comes in ways that can’t be taught in school. Prepare to be all shook up by the shocking true story of David Stanley, stepbrother and bodyguard of Elvis Presley. Through the dizzying highs and lows of life on the road with unlimited excess, he experienced it all…and barely survived. DVD Features Include: Behind the Scenes Featurette, and Director’s Commentary

The Perfect Weapon is an action 1991 film starring Jeff Speakman. It tells the story of a young man, Jeff, who is trained in the martial art of Kenpo, and his fight against the Korean mafia families.
Speakman was a student of and was advised closely by Ed Parker in the making of this film. Parker has been accredited with founding American Kenpo as well as teaching the Tracy Brothers who founded the very successful franchise of Tracy’s Kenpo.

The film’s taglines included “No gun. No knife. No equal.” and “Just try him.” and is the only well-known Hollywood depiction of Kenpo techniques on-screen. The hit 1990s song The Power by rap group Snap! is featured extensively in the movie’s soundtrack.

Jeff Sanders (played by Jeff Speakman) leads a double-life: by day, he is a simple, unassuming construction worker, and by night, an expert Kenpo student and master of his craft. When Jeff lost his mother as a young man, he became an outcast and frequently lashed out at his family and society in an attempt to assuage his anger. His father gained the idea from a mutual friend, Kim (played by Mako), to enroll Jeff in a Kenpo school to better manage his rage and feelings.

Jeff, now estranged from his family and living alone, continued with his courses in Kenpo and eventually gained Kim as a mentor and father figure.

Years later (as the movie begins) Jeff decides to return to his old neighborhood and visit his mentor Kim. It becomes clear quite quickly that Kim is having trouble with local mafia families, due to his refusal to pay them off and use his antique store to peddle drugs. Jeff tries to help out Kim, but only ends up doing more harm than good to Kim’s reputation with the mafia, and this ultimately ends up having Kim murdered by an anonymous hit-man.

Jeff vows to avenge Kim’s death, and uses all his resources and fighting skills to go against the mafia and find out who ordered Kim’s murder. As it happens, or to complicate matters more, his younger brother, played by John Dye (Touched By An Angel), is the cop who is investigating the murder.

Studio: Cannon Home Video
Director: Albert Magnoli
Cast: Jeff Speakman, Christopher Neame
A former cop returns to challenge a plot to escalate gang violence in the streets of Los Angeles.

The Expert

Director: Rick Avery
Cast: Jeff Speakman, James Brolin
Johnny’s sister is brutally attacked and murdered by a sadistic serial killer. At the trial, he is sentenced to be electrocuted, but a bleeding heart liberal has the sentence commuted to a mental facility. Here, he will interact with other model prisoners and give talks at schools while he is being treated. The only problem is that Johnny, being a ex-special forces trainer, is coming to the prison to seek his own justice and that does not include rehabilitation.