The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life (2007) (V)

Directors:

René Manzor
Carl Schultz

Writers:

Matthew Jacobs ('British East Africa' screenplay) &
Reg Gadney ('Paris' screenplay)

Release Date:

23 October 2007 (USA)

Genre:

History

Plot:

On safari in British East Africa in September 1910, ten year old Indiana Jones befriends a Massai boy...

Cast

Corey Carrier	...	Henry 'Indiana' Jones, Jr. (also archive footage)
Margaret Tyzack	...	Miss Helen Seymour (also archive footage)
Ruth de Sosa	...	Anna Jones (also archive footage)
Lloyd Owen	...	Henry Jones, Sr. (also archive footage)
Danny Webb	...	Pablo Picasso (archive footage)
Jean-Pierre Aumont	...	Edgar Degas (archive footage)
Isaac Senteu Supeyo	...	Meto (archive footage)
James Gammon	...	Teddy Roosevelt (archive footage)
Paul Freeman	...	Selous (archive footage)
Lukas Haas	...	Norman Rockwell (archive footage)
Tim Machin	...	Kermit Roosevelt (archive footage) (as Timothy Machin)
Edward Tudor-Pole	...	Medlicot (archive footage)
Paul Birchard	...	Heller (archive footage)
Toby Stark	...	Loring (archive footage)
Ivana Sprachalova	...	Gertrude Stein (archive footage)

Runtime:

USA:94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French | Maasai

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Barrandov Studios, Krizeneckeho namesti, Prague, Czech Republic

Company:

Amblin Television

Quotes:

Anna Jones: An old friend of your father's invited us to visit the wine country, one of the finest vineyards in France.

Movie Connections:

Edited from "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: British East Africa, September 1909 (#1.3)" (1992)

Still no consistent plot, but a fun adventure anyways

In this instalment Indy travels to Africa and meets up with President Roosevelt on a safari trip. Keen to hunt down a rare animal Indy helps the President out by going off on his own with a local tribes-boy and getting into the usual trouble.

He's not happy with Teddy gunning down all the wildlife and urges him to limit his killing. It's a believable development since he found the hunting of the famous 'Teddy Bear' to be un-sportsmanlike (it was later killed anyway).

The film then moves on to Paris where Indy meets a young Norman Rockwell and sneaks off into the city where he meets Pablo Picasso (played by Danny Webb, who you might recognise as Morse from Alien 3). I found this scene to be a bit confusing as Picasso is Hitler's exact double in the movie, right down to the hair and moustache and everyone knows that Hitler was a failed artist before a dictator. So when we are introduced to Picasso as a man who is adamant that his art is understood I immediately got it wrong.

The lack of plot is kind of annoying, but it's a decent movie.