The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert (1999) (V)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Simon Wincer

Writer:

Frank Darabont (writer)

Release Date:

26 October 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure

Plot:

Indiana Jones helps British and Australian soldiers take the town of Beersheba during the Great War.

Plot Keywords:

1910s | WWI | Beautiful Woman | Young Versions Of Characters | Character Name In Title

Cast

Sean Patrick Flanery	...	Indiana Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones	...	Maya (as Catherine Zeta Jones)
Julian Firth	...	Richard Meinertzhagen
Cameron Daddo	...	Jack Anders
Douglas Henshall	...	T.E. Lawrence
Haluk Bilginer	...	Col. Ismet Bey
Daniel Craig	...	Schiller
Kerem Atabeyoglu	...	Rashid
Colin Baker	...	Maj. Gen. Harry George Chauvel
Tony Bonner	...	Lt. Col. M.W.J. Bouchier [sic] (also archive footage)
Terrence Hardiman	...	Fitzgerald
Stuart Bennett	...	Kevin
Todd Boyce	...	Dex
Bernard Brown	...	Gen. Hodgson
Vincenzo Nicoli	...	Kazim

Runtime:

82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

UK:12 (cut)

Trivia:

WILHELM SCREAM: Heard once during the opening battle and again when a soldier falls of his horse as one of the wells is blown up.

Quotes:

T.E. Lawrence: There's a well at Beersheba called the well of Abraham.
Indiana Jones: Do you think Abraham used it?
T.E. Lawrence: Bible says that he brought his flocks out of the desert and watered them there, which in a way is what you have to do.
Indiana Jones: Only I'm no Abraham, and those soldiers aren't sheep.
T.E. Lawrence: Well some of the generals think they are.

Movie Connections:

Edited from The Lighthorsemen (1987)

For 'Young' people only!

This is just one in the what seems like thousands of YOUNG INDIANA JONES movies that have been released direct-to-video during the past few years. This one takes place during the Great War and while some of the action scenes are fantastic, they can't make up for the hokey dialogue, annoying music, mediocre acting, and thin story line. Young people may enjoy it, but older people and fans of the YOUNG INDIANA JONES series will probably be disappointed.