Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Review

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Release Date: 19^th July 1984 - Australia

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures (presents)

Lucasfilm Ltd.

Distribution

Paramount Pictures Australia

Genre: Action/Adventure

Rating: M

Runtime: 118 minutes

Budget: $28,200,000

Box Office Gross: $333,107,271 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary

In 1935, courageous
archaeologist Indiana Jones
is in China, negotiating with
Chinese gangsters for an
artefact when he narrowly
avoids death. With night-
club singer Wilhelmina

"Willie" Scott and a
twelve-year-old boy, Short
Round, they end up in far-
off India, where they come
across a small village in crisis,
where the people believe that

evil spirits have taken all their

children away after a precious
sacred stone got stolen!

So Indy embarks on a quest with
Willie and Short Round as they
set out to find the missing stone
and children before stumbling

into a terrible discovery
surrounding a booby-trapped
temple called the Temple of

Doom! With the power of all five
Sankara Stones at their possession,
Thuggee is on a quest for world
domination! It is up to Indiana to
retrieve the stone, rescue the

kidnapped children and end the

Thuggee campaign.

Cast
Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones
Kate Capshaw - Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott
Jonathan Ke Quan - Short Round
Amrish Puri - Mola Ram
Roshan Seth - Chattar Lal
Phillip Stone - Captain Phillip Blumburtt
Raj Singh - Zalim Singh
D. R. Nanayakkara - Shaman
Roy Chiao - Lao Che
David Yip - Wu Han

Ric Young - Kao Khan

Chua Kah Joo - Chen

Pat Roach - Chief Guard

Dan Aykroyd - Weber (Cameo)

Crew

Director - Steven Spielberg
Story/Executive Producer - George Lucas
Screenplay - Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz

Associate Producer - Kathleen Kennedy
Executive Producer/Second Assistant Director: London -

Frank Marshall
Producer - Robert Watts

Casting Directors - Jane Feinberg,

Mike Fenton, Marci Liroff and Mary Selway

Production Designer - Elliot Scott

Production Illustrators - Ed Verreaux

and Andrew Probert

Chief Art Director - Alan Cassie

Art Director - Roger Cain

Art Director: California - Joe Johnston

Assistant Art Directors - Peter Russell

and Stephen Scott

Draughtsman - Richard Holland

Set Decorator - Peter Howitt

Property Master - Barry Wilkinson
Costume Designer - Anthony Powell

Assistant Costume Designer - Joanna Johnston

Chief Makeup Artist - Peter Robb-King

Chief Hairdresser - Colin Jamison
Director of Photography - Douglas Slocombe

Director of Photography: California -

Allen Daviau

Additional Photography - Paul Beeson

Steadicam Photography: Sri Lanka - Garrett Brown

Operating Cameramen - Chic Waterson and

David Worley

Operating Cameramen: California - John J. Connor

and John M. Stephens

First Assistant Cameraman: California - Eric Engler

Location Manager: California - Richard Vane

Production Manager: USA - Robert Latham Brown

Production Manager: UK - Patricia Carr

First Assistant Director: USA - Louis Race

Assistant Director: UK - David Tomblin

Second Assistant Directors: UK - Roy Button

and Steve Harding
Second Unit Director - Michael D. Moore

Second Unit Director: California/Stunt Arranger:

Location/Stunts - Glenn Randall Jr.

Stunt Arranger: Studio/Stunts - Vic Armstrong

Choreographer - Danny Daniels

Mechanical Effects Supervisor - George Gibbs

Special Effects Supervisor: California - Kevin Pike

Chief Special Effects Technician - Richard E. Conway

Special Effects Assistants - Peter Davey,

Steve Hamilton, Joss Williams and Michael Dawson

(Uncredited)

Floor Effects Supervisor - David H. Watkins
Visual Effects Supervisor - Dennis Muren

Effects Creative Consultant: ILM - Phil Tippett

Optical Photography Supervisor: ILM - Bruce Nicholson

Additional Photography: ILM - Rick Fichter

Chief Visual Effects Cameraman: ILM - Michael J. McAllister

Visual Effects Cameraman: ILM - Michael Owens

Assistant Cameramen: ILM - Kim Marks,

Pat Sweeney, Randy Jonsson and Joe Fulmer

Modelshop Supervisor: ILM - Lorne Peterson

Chief Model Makers: ILM - Paul Huston,

Barbara Gallucci, Charlie Bailey, Ease Owyeung

and Michael Fulmer

Matte Painting Supervisor: ILM - Michael Pangrazio

Matte Camera Supervisor: ILM - Craig Barron

Matte Photography: ILM - David Fincher

and Deborah Morgan

Stop Motion Animation: ILM - Tom St. Amand

Stage Coordinator: ILM - Edward Hirsh
Editor - Michael Kahn

Assistant Film Editors - Bruce Green,

Steven Kemper and Colin Wilson

Sound Design/Re-Recording Mixer - Ben Burtt

Sound Mixer - Simon Kaye

Sound Effects Editors - John Benson,

Teresa Eckton, Ken Fischer and

Suzanne Fox

Dialogue Editors - Gloria S. Borders

and Richard Hymns

Re-Recording Mixers - Gary Summers

and Randy Thom

Foley Artist - Dennie Thorpe
Music - John Williams

Supervising Music Editor - Kenneth Wannberg

Music Recording Consultant - Bruce Botnick

Marketing and Promotion - Sidney Ganis

Awards

1985 Academy Awards
Best Visual Effects - Dennis Muren,
George Gibbs, Lorne Peterson and
Michael J. McAlister (Won)
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Best Original Score - John Williams (Nominated)

Review

Technically, a prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM is fun yet darker and threatening than its predecessor. This film indicates the personal turmoil that Spielberg and Lucas were experiencing at the time. DOOM includes nightmarish scenes like the evil priest pulling the heart out of a victim while he was still alive. I still liked Harrison Ford's performance in that movie despite pulling through. I find the mine cart chase sequence thrilling and the bridge fight scene impressive. My only complaint would be Jones' love interest, Willie Scott, who is nothing but a whiner and a cause of danger. It doesn't help that Kate Capshaw, the director's future wife, portrayed this character. They should have made her more serious and less of a damsel in distress and would have made the movie a 10 out of 10.

Although THE TEMPLE OF DOOM was not as good as the first and third Indiana Jones films, it's still an enjoyable and semi-decent adventure for fans if they are willing to get past some of its political incorrectness.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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