Speed 2: Cruise Control Speed 2: Cruise Control Speed 2: Cruise Control is a 1997 American action thriller film produced and directed by Jan de Bont, and written by Randall McCormick and Jeff Nathanson. It is a sequel to "Speed" (1994). The film stars Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe, and Sandra Bullock—the last reprising her role from "Speed". The film was released by 20th Century Fox on June 13, 1997. "Cruise Control" follows couple Annie (Bullock) and Alex (Patric) vacationing in the Caribbean aboard a luxury cruise ship, hijacked by a villain named Geiger (Dafoe). As they are trapped aboard the ship, Annie and Alex
Gene Porter Lunceford (1942), Fats Waller, and Benny Carter (1942–44), working as assistant bandleader under Carter and appearing in several films. He joined the Army in 1944-45, then played with Carter again and recorded with Dinah Washington (1945), Charles Mingus (1946), and Lloyd Glenn (1947). After moving to San Diego in 1948, he played with Walter Fuller (1948–60), then led his own ensemble at the Bronze Room in La Mesa, California beginning in 1967. Porter was named a member of the St. Louis Jazz Hall of Fame in the 1980s. Gene Porter Gene Porter (June 7, 1910, Pocahontas, Mississippi – February 24,