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
James Porter (Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge) James Porter (Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge) James Porter, D.D. (b Belfast 2 October 1827 - d Cambridge 2 October 1900) was a British academic in the second half of the 19th century. Porter was born in Drumlee, Castlewellan, Co. Down , Ireland in the year 1825, the son of Rev. James Porter, Presbyterian Minister, and the brother of (1) William Archer Porter, a lawyer and educationist who served as the Principal of Government Arts College, Kumbakonam and tutor and secretary to the Maharaja of Mysore, (2) Jane Bailie Porter, who married Alexander Crum Brown, the Scottish organic chemist and (3)