Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues (13 Mar. 1993)

Wyoming, 1950. Indiana Jones and his friend Grey Cloud have obtained a sacred ceremonial pipe and end up in a slow-logged cabin. When Jones finds a soprano sax, he is reminded of his ... See full summary »

Director:

Carl Schultz

Writers:

George Lucas (story), Jule Selbo

Stars:

Sean Patrick Flanery, Harrison Ford, Jeffrey Wright

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Sean Patrick Flanery	...	Indiana Jones
Harrison Ford	...	Indiana Jones - age 50
Jeffrey Wright	...	Sidney Bichet
Jay Underwood	...	Ernest Hemingway
Keith David	...	King Oliver
Frank Vincent	...	John Torrio
Frederick Weller	...	Eliot Ness
Maria Howell	...	Goldie
Nicholas Turturro	...	Big Al Brown
Saginaw Grant	...	Grey Cloud
Jane Krakowski	...	Dale Winter
David Arnott	...	Clifford
Victor Slezak	...	O'Bannion
Raymond Serra	...	Colosimo (as Ray Serra)
Leon Pridgen	...	CJ (as J. Leon Pridgen II)

Storyline

Wyoming, 1950. Indiana Jones and his friend Grey Cloud have obtained a sacred ceremonial pipe and end up in a slow-logged cabin. When Jones finds a soprano sax, he is reminded of his college days in Chicago 1920. Indy was waiting tables at Colosimo's and had become obsessed with Jazz music. He managed to befriend Sidney Bichet who encouraged him to practice the soprano sax. But then Colosimo was murdered on the doorstep of his restaurant and Indy got caught up in the investigation together with his roommate Eliot Ness and young reporter Ernest Hemingway.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Family | Mystery

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 March 1993 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Amblin Entertainment, Lucasfilm, Paramount Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min 82 min (video)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Selections of Joel McNeely's score, not including the "Wyoming 1950" cues adapted from John Williams's Raiders of the Lost Ark, can be heard on the Varese Sarabande CD "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Volume Three" (1994), produced by Robert Townson.

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Quotes

Harvey: This is a respectable party, bub. There, there's girls here. We don't like brothel music.

User Reviews

Blues and Booze

A good 90 minute show, heavy on the the blues and jazz in the first half but the actors miming the instrumentals come off as too fake. Good music and vocals though. The Indy character takes a bit of a subdued role here, after all his adventures overseas - army, POW, secret service, vampires, etc. during the war he must have wanted to go back to the simple life of being a college kid with a part-time job. In this respect the continuity of the character suffers a bit. Many "real" characters written in the story - the various musicians, Indy's roommate, his friend Hemingway, the bartender with the "scarface" and others. A big action sequence near the end with Model T's (or were they A's?, they could've run faster)...and no real ending, but a glimpse of 1920's Chicago city politics/justice.