

While working for a Hollywood movie studio, Indy finds that he is no match for the wily megalomaniacal director Erich von Stroheim when the two lock horns over the ever increasing budget of Stroheim's film Foolish Wives. Though battered by the film industry, Indy decides to give it one more chance and goes on a location shoot with legendary director John Ford. Ford and his cronies, including aging gunman Wyatt Earp, help him see the magic of movies and moviemaking, and when an actor is accidentally killed, Indy pitches in to save the film.
Direction
Michael Schultz juggling von Stroheim excess and Ford's quiet mythmaking.
Production
Glorious period recreation — 1920s Hollywood never looked this expensive on TV.

Director
Michael Schultz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924) originally ran 9.5 hours; MGM destroyed most of it. The episode's budget battles are basically documentary.
John Ford actually mentored young George Lucas, making this a weird indirect prequel to... Star Wars? The lineage tracks.
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