Indy and his girlfriend, Nancy Stratemeyer, whose father created the Nancy Drew mystery series, visit the laboratory of inventor Thomas Edison. The two must contend with dangerous German spies as they struggle to keep Edison's top secret new invention out of the hands of hostile enemy agents. To keep him from getting into any more trouble, Indy is sent to visit his aunt in New Mexico. While there, he is kidnapped by Pancho Villa and swept into the Mexican Revolution. Chaotic, free-wheeling border towns, a "Wild Bunch" style train robbery and a colorful barroom encounter with a young George Patton make for thrilling entertainment in this action-packed movie.
Practical Effects
Joe Johnston's train robbery sequence, pure Saturday matinee
Production
Globe-trotting TV budget that somehow doesn't look cheap
Costume
Pancho Villa's revolutionaries looking appropriately dusty
Director
Carl Schultz
Sean Patrick Flanery
Indiana Jones
Lloyd Owen
Professor Henry Jones, Sr.
Ronny Coutteure
Remy Baudouin
Robyn Lively
Nancy Stratemeyer
Francesco Quinn
Francois
Mike Moroff
Pancho Villa
Mark L. Taylor
Professor Thompson
Clark Gregg
Dickinson
James Handy
Frank Brady
Antonio Valero
Julio Cárdenas
Peter Marinker
Pershing
Stuart Milligan
Lt. George Patton
Ed Bishop
Sentry
John Asher
Clifford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was edited from two Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episodes ('Princeton, February 1916' and 'Mexico, March 1916'), part of George Lucas's failed bid to teach history through adventure serials.
Joe Johnston directed this between Jumanji and October Sky, bringing his signature 'earnest boys having dangerous fun' energy to Pancho Villa's revolution.
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