The Adventures Of Indiana Jones: The Complete DVD Movie Collection - The Complete Movie Collection (Fullscreen)

Adventure, Documentary, Fantasy, Action

Sean Connery	Prodessor Henry Jones
Harrison Ford	Indiana Jones
Kate Capshaw	Wilhelmina Scott
Karen Allen	Maria Ravenwood
Denholm Elliott	Dr. Marcus Brody
Paul Freeman	Rene Belloq
Ronald Lacey	Toht, Heinrich Himmler
Alfred Molina	Satipo
John Rhys-Davies	Sallah
River Phoenix	Young Indie
Steven Spielberg
Wolf Kahler	Col. Dietrich
Anthony Higgins	Gobler
Vic Tablian	Barranca/Monkey Man
Don Fellows	Col. Musgrove
William Hootkins	Maj. Eaton
Richard Briers	Rat
Peter Davison	Mole
Paul Eddington	Badger
Hugh Laurie	Toad
Imelda Staunton
Gary Martin	Otter/Various
Richard Tate

Director	Steven Spielberg; Laurent Bouzereau; Martin Gates
Producer	Robert Watts; Laurent Bouzereau; Martin Gates
Writer	George Lucas; Philip Kaufman; Kenneth Grahame

As with Star Wars, the George Lucas-produced Indiana Jones trilogy was not just a plaything for kids but an act of nostalgic affection toward a lost phenomenon: the cliffhanging movie serials of the past. Episodic in structure and with fate hanging in the balance about every 10 minutes, the Jones features tapped into Lucas's extremely profitable Star Wars formula of modernizing the look and feel of an old, but popular, story model. Steven Spielberg directed all three films, which are set in the late 1930s and early '40s: the comic book-like Raiders of the Lost Ark, the spooky, Gunga Din-inspired Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and the cautious but entertaining Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Fans and critics disagree over the order of preference, some even finding the middle movie nearly repugnant in its violence. (Pro-Temple of Doom people, on the other hand, believe that film to be the most disarmingly creative and emotionally effective of the trio.) One thing's for sure: Harrison Ford's swaggering, two-fisted, self-effacing performance worked like a charm, and the art of cracking bullwhips was probably never quite the iconic activity it soon became after Raiders. Supporting players and costars were very much a part of the series, too--Karen Allen, Sean Connery (as Indie's dad), Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Denholm Elliot, River Phoenix, and John Rhys-Davies among them. Years have passed since the last film (another is supposedly in the works), but emerging film buffs can have the same fun their predecessors did picking out numerous references to Hollywood classics and B-movies of the past. --Tom Keogh