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

Part of this episode deals with young Indiana Jones's efforts to get the megalomaniac director Erich von Stroheim (played by Dana Gladstone) to shut down production on his movie, Foolish Wives. Ironically, the cast of Foolish Wives included an actor named Harrison Ford, a well-known silent movie actor of his day (who was no relation to the actor who plays Indiana Jones).

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Goofs

The story takes place in 1920. In the opening scene, young Indiana Jones is sitting in a movie theater, watching the chariot race from Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, which wasn't released until 1925.

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Quotes

John Ford: You don't mind acting with a corpse, do you, Kitty?
Kitty: What's new?

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Connections

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

User Reviews

A documentary.

I have yet to see so many of these films and episodes of the TV Show. I thought I was going to be disappointed when I watched this film. I was wrong. It's not the same Indy as the Spielberg-directed films, but how could it be? Instead, this film was approached in a kind of documentary-style. Keeping in check with the other Indy films, there are, of course, recognisable elements. I particularly enjoyed the fictitious telling of the making of a John Ford film(I forget which one it was, if it was any of them). I don't think Indy is the main character in these films. He's like the missing link to tell us these stories that Mr. Lucas dreamed up. I don't think they explain certain questions that are constantly asked about older Indy, but I don't really care. That would be doing the series injustice. Each Indy adventure is approached with a James Bond-ish...approach. None of the adventures continue into the next one. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Now, if it was Star Wars, well...