Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920 (3 Apr. 1993)

Indiana Jones is late for a Broadway show and begins to recount his own experiences working backstage at George White's Scandals in 1920 to his disgruntled female cabdriver. Indy managed to... See full summary »

Director:

Syd Macartney

Writer:

Jonathan Hales

Stars:

Sean Patrick Flanery, George Hall, Alexandra Powers

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Sean Patrick Flanery	...	Indiana Jones
George Hall	...	Old Indy
Alexandra Powers	...	Gloria
Anne Heche	...	Kate
Jennifer Stevens	...	Peggy
Christopher John Fields	...	George White
Tom Beckett	...	George Gershwin
Michelle Nicastro	...	Ann Penington
Bill McKinney	...	Mack
Robert Trebor	...	Schwarz
Peter Appel	...	Ross
Annabelle Gurwitch	...	Dottie
Mark Holton	...	Alexander Woollcott
Terumi Matthews	...	Edna Ferber
Dylan Price	...	Franklin Adams

Storyline

Indiana Jones is late for a Broadway show and begins to recount his own experiences working backstage at George White's Scandals in 1920 to his disgruntled female cabdriver. Indy managed to woo no less than three girls in as many days: singer Peggy, poet Kate and socialite Gloria. Arriving at the treater, Old Indy has no time to finish his account to the cabbie and instead picks up the story in the course of lecturing a theatre critic about the hardships of the little people struggling to put on their show.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Family | Mystery

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 April 1993 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Carolco Studios, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Amblin Entertainment, Lucasfilm, Paramount Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Released on video in 1999 as part 21 of "The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones", minus the bookends starring George Hall as Old Indy.

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Quotes

Mack: As far as I'm concerned, you're an idiot.
[louder]
Mack: What are you?
Indiana Jones: I'm an idiot.
Mack: Correct. Now open your idiot ears and follow me.
[they walk through a door and go backstage]
Mack: You're job is to do all the idiot jobs that only an idiot wants to do. Like make the coffee, run the errants, scrape the stage.

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Connections

Edited into The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920 (2008)

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Soundtracks

"The Man I Love"
(uncredited)
Music by George Gershwin
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Sung by Linda Ronstadt
Lip-synced by Jennifer Stevens

User Reviews

Young Indy in 1920s New York, in the Broadway Musical scene.

Sean Patrick Flanery is young Indiana Jones, nearing his 21st birthday and traveling by train to New York City. He is studying Archeology and has been invited to stay with friends of the family.

On the train he meets Jennifer Stevens as Peggy who is traveling to New York City to star in a musical, only she doesn't know which one yet. She has aspirations to make it as a singer.

This is a fictional Indiana Jones story set in a real period of transition on Broadway. Since 1904 Zigfeld and his Follies dominated the entertainment industry there, but an upstart, George White, was just beginning to introduce a new kind of more exciting stage performance. White enlisted the services of a young George Gershwin to write all the music, which was a deviation from the practice of selecting a series of already known songs. So this fictional story has Indiana Jones in this circle of White, Gershwin, Berlin, and the entertainment critics. He not only gets involved with them, he becomes instrumental in George White's first success, the young Indy showing signs of the daring we get to know in the Harrison Ford movies.

Good movie, on DVD. The biggest task Indy has to manage is getting involved with three attractive young ladies right away, each thinking he is hers alone. In the end, when they find out what has been going on, at Indy's 21st birthday party, his face ends up in the cake.