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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 movie starring Harrison Ford and directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the second movie in the Indiana Jones movie series and the prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom
Directed bySteven Spielberg
Produced byRobert Watts
Screenplay by
  • Willard Huyck
  • Gloria Katz
Story byGeorge Lucas
Starring
Music byJohn Williams
CinematographyDouglas Slocombe
Edited byMichael Kahn
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • May 8, 1984 (1984-05-08) (Westwood)
  • May 23, 1984 (1984-05-23) (United States)
Running time
118 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$28.17 million[2]
Box office$333.1 million

Cast

Plot

The movie is set in 1934. Indiana Jones meets a gangster named Lao Che in Shanghai. Lao Che wants the ashes of the Manchurian emperor Nurachi. In turn, he will give Jones a rare diamond. They trade items. However, Lao Che put poison in Jones's drink and offers him the antidote for the diamond. A fight ensues, where one of Lao Che's sons is killed and a dancer named Willie Scott picks up the antidote. Jones and Scott leap out a window, where they are driven by Jones's sidekick Short Round through Shanghai. They then get on plane but do not know that it is owned by Lao Che.

Lao Che orders the pilots of his plane to parachute out to try to kill Jones. However, Jones uses a life boat and lands safely. They are then greeted by a village leader in India who tells them that a group of men took their Sankara Stone and kidnapped their children. He asks if the three of them will go help them find the stone and their children. Jones agrees and the three of them go out on elephants.

They stay the night at Pankot Palace. While there, a big man tries to kill Jones. Jones finds a secret door and find a large underground temple underneath the palace run by the Thuggee people. He sees the three Sankara Stones there. The three of them watch their leader, Mola Ram, sacrifice a man by pulling out his heart and lowering him into a lava pit where he burns to death. The Thuggees see them and capture them.

Jones meets Mola Ram, the one that kidnapped the children and stole the stone. He forces the children to work as slaves in the mine to find more of the stones. He has Jones drink the blood of Kali. The blood brainwashes Jones and puts him under a spell. Ram then shows him Scott, who they captured. Jones puts her in a cage and starts to lower her down into a lava pit. Short Round, who was working at the mines, gets free. He takes a torch and burns Jones, who comes to his senses. He saves Scott, takes the stones, and starts to get out of there.

He frees the children from their chains. However, another big man, the leader, starts to fight Jones. Jones is winning but when he is about to beat the guy, he suddenly goes into great pain. Short Round tries to help but cannot help very much. He looks up and sees that the king is using a voodoo doll and hurting Jones. Short Round climbs up to the top and burns him as well, just in time. The three heroes go into the mine cart to escape, leading a long chase where they barely escape.

Mola Ram traps them over a bridge. Jones signals to his friends to hold on and then he cuts the rope. Most of the Thuggees die when they are eaten by crocodiles down below. The rest of the people hang onto the bridge, which hits a cliff. Scott and Short Round easily make it up. Ram and Jones fight. It ends when Jones utters a chant that makes the stones very hot. Ram grabs one, is burned, and falls to his death below and is eaten by crocodiles.

A group of Indian riflemen then come down and shoots at the Thuggees, driving them back. Jones brings the stone and all the children back to the village.

Release Dates

Country Premiere
  Canada 23 May 1984
  United States 23 May 1984
  Soviet Union 26 May 1984
  United Kingdom 15 June 1984
  Ireland 15 June 1984
  28 June 1984
  Argentina 5 July 1984
  Brazil 5 July 1984
  Mexico 5 July 1984
  Uruguay 5 July 1984
  Japan 7 July 1984
  Netherlands 12 July 1984
  Peru 12 July 1984
  Sweden 13 July 1984
  Australia 19 July 1984
  Colombia 19 July 1984
  Denmark 20 July 1984
  West Germany 3 August 1984
  Finland 17 August 1984
  Norway 17 August 1984
  Portugal 31 August 1984
  France 12 September 1984
  Greece 19 September 1984
  Italy 27 September 1984
  Spain 5 October 1984
  South Korea 8 May 1985
  Poland December 1985
  Turkey January 1986
  Hungary 31 July 1986

Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom Media

  • Amrish Puri had been working on 18 films in India upon being cast as the villain Mola Ram. Spielberg later remarked "Amrish is my favorite villain. The best the world has ever produced and ever will."

  • Steven Spielberg and Production Supervisor Chandran Rutnam on location in Kandy, Sri Lanka, during the filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

  • Harrison Ford with Rutnam on the set of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in Sri Lanka in 1983

References

  1. ↑ "INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (PG) (CUT)". British Board of Film Classification. May 31, 1984. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ Rinzler, Bouzereau, Chapter 8: "Forward on All Fronts (August 1983 – June 1984)", p. 168—183

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