The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies (TV 1994)

Indiana Jones struggles to help film director Erich Von Stroheim finish his latest film with limited time and budget.

Director:

Michael Schultz

Writers:

Jonathan Hales, Matthew Jacobs

Stars:

Sean Patrick Flanery, Allison Smith, Bill Cusack

Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sean Patrick Flanery	...	Young Indiana Jones
Allison Smith	...	Claire Lieberman
Bill Cusack	...	Irving Thalberg
Julia Campbell	...	Kitty
David Margulies	...	Carl Laemmle
Peter Dennis	...	Pete
Tom Beckett	...	George Gershwin
Luigi Amodeo	...	Massimo
J.D. Hinton	...	Harry Carey
Leo Gordon	...	Wyatt Earp
Stephen Caffrey	...	John Ford
Dana Gladstone	...	Erich Von Stroheim
Lew Horn	...	Chuck
Mitchell Group	...	Izzy Bernstein
George Fisher	...	Cabbie

Storyline

Indy takes a job as assistant to a Hollywood studio executive in an attempt to earn his college fees. His job is to get flamboyant and difficult director Erich Von Stroheim to complete his latest epic on time and with the budget, or else.

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Plot Keywords:

indiana jones | sequel | young version of character | adventurer | fedora | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English German

Release Date:

15 October 1994 (USA)

Also Known As:

Az ifjú Indiana Jones: Kaland Hollywoodban

Filming Locations:

Ventura, San Diego, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Amblin Television, Lucasfilm, Paramount Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Originally scheduled to be part of a third series of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, this became the first of four Young Indy TV movies shown on The Family Channel (though chronologically the last). Released on video in 1999 as part 22 of "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones".

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Goofs

The story takes place in 1920. The song sung by the chorus at von Stroheim's pool, "O Fortuna" by Carl Orff, was not put to music until 1935, although the lyrics are about 750 years old.

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Quotes

Indiana Jones: Excuse me, sir, do you know Universal Studios?
Cabbie: The funny farm? Yeah, who doesn't!

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Connections

Features Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

User Reviews

He vos nut a GERMAN!

I admit that I only watched this film because it had Erich von Stroheim in it, and didn't even finish watching it, and know nothing about the Indiana Jones series, so maybe I'm missing something here, but so much about this movie was so terrible that it wasn't even funny.

It wasn't ALL bad -- actually, the sets and costuming were excellent (the 1920s - such an aesthetically pleasing time period!). And the bits of the actual movie "Foolish Wives" were good, because they had the authentic Erich in them. The most painful parts seemed to occur whenever the main characters had dialogue. Some of the lines exchanged between young Indiana Jones and the heroine made me want to retch. There are some actors whose delivery and skill can make a cheesy piece of dialogue work -- these two do not belong to this group. They were trying to be youthfully cutesy, and the results were not pretty. The heroine says things you'd never expect anyone to say in normal conversation, lines that sound clumsy and forced, especially out of her mouth -- she doesn't seem comfortable in her role.

And then there's Erich von Stroheim. True, the guy did seem to be having a lot of fun playing the role -- and the back of his head was identical to Stroheim's (you couldn't really expect much more; Stroheim was unique, no conventional Hollywood pretty-boy, and you'd be hard-pressed to find someone whose looks were remotely similar). Actually, the scenes with Stroheim would have been enjoyable IF he hadn't used that overdone corny fake German accent. Did he do any research at ALL? Did he bother to look at any of the talkies Stroheim was in? Erich von Stroheim was Austrian. Austrian! Austrian!! And there's a huge difference between an Austrian and a blatantly false German accent. It was embarrassing -- I might have been able to enjoy it and root for him if he had been a bit more convincing, but I couldn't get over the way he was mangling Stroheim's delicate growl, with that lilting Austrian twang, into the voice of a hysterical cartoon Nazi.

Whew, I needed to get that off my chest.