The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Renny Harlin and written by David Arnott, James Cappe, and Daniel Waters based on a story by Arnott and Cappe. The film stars comedian Andrew Dice Clay as the title character, Ford Fairlane, a Rock n Roll Detective, whose beat is the music industry in Los Angeles. True to his name, Ford drives a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner in the film.
Ford Fairlane Andrew Dice Clay is seen sitting on a beach smoking as the film opens. A flashback initiates, showing a roaring crowd at a concert given by fictional popular heavy metal band The Black Plague. Lead singer Bobby Black Vince Neil makes an eccentric entrance down a zipline onto the stage and begins performing. Shortly into one of the bands songs, Bobby Black collapses on stage and dies.After the lead singer of The Black Plague is murdered onstage, shockjock Johnny Crunch Gilbert Gottfried, an old friend who came west with Fairlane, hires Ford to track down a mysterious teenage groupie named Zuzu Petals, who may have a connection to Blacks death. ........
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