In 1935, Indiana Jones arrives in India, still part of the British Empire, and is asked to find a mystical stone. He then stumbles upon a secret cult committing enslavement and human sacrifices in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
Indiana Jones teams up with a nightclub singer named Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott and a twelve-year-old Chinese boy named Short Round. They end up in a small distressed village in India, where the people believe that evil spirits have taken all their children away after a sacred precious stone was stolen. They also discover the great mysterious terror surrounding a booby-trapped temple known as the Temple of Doom. Thuggee is beginning to attempt to rise once more, believing that with the power of all five Sankara stones they can rule the world. It's all up to Indiana to put an end to the Thuggee campaign, rescue the lost children, win the girl and conquer the Temple of Doom.Written by
Anthony Pereyra <hypersonic91@yahoo.com>
Steven Spielberg said in 1989, "I wasn't happy with Temple of Doom at all. It was too dark, too subterranean, and much too horrific. I thought it out-poltered Poltergeist (1982). There's not an ounce of my own personal feeling in Temple of Doom." He later added during the Making of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom documentary, "Temple of Doom is my least favorite of the trilogy. I look back and I say, 'Well the greatest thing that I got out of that was I met Kate Capshaw. We married years later, and that to me was the reason I was fated to make Temple of Doom." See more »
Goofs
After the Chinese pilots jump from the Ford Tri-motor 4AT, Indy and Willie watch the propellers shut down as the plane runs out of fuel. When the plane brushes the mountaintop, the non-operational props are clearly visible. Yet when Indy, Willie, and Shorty bail from the plane in the emergency raft, we can see that all three props are fully operational. See more »
The Paramount mountain dissolves into a mountain on a gong. Kate Capshaw's hands obscure the words 'starring in', after which her entire body obscures the "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" title. See more »
Alternate Versions
To avoid a '15' certificate in the UK (with the sacrificial ceremony said to be bordering on '18', according to a letter sent by the BBFC to UIP in 1984), the BBFC cut 1 minute 6 secs from the film and later said that it was one of the strongest PG ratings they had ever issued. Among the cuts made were a heart ripped from a sacrificial victim and his lowering into the blazing pit, edits to a whipping scene and the fight between Indiana and the overseer, and the removal of a shot of a man's head hitting the side of a cliff. The line "Leave him alone, you bastards" was changed to "Leave him alone" and sounds of screams and violence were also considerably reduced. This PG rated print was the only version available in the UK for many years until October 2012, when the cuts were fully waived for the 12 rated Blu-Ray release. See more »
Spielberg made this movie darker than all the other Indy films due to splitting with his wife at the time. Spielberg was unhappy and wanted to take out his anger on this film and do a "rub-my-pain-in-your-face" kind of thing. He sort of put his character in Indy in this film to show his wife that he was hurt, tortured and even turned evil temporarily because of her. But fortunately, he found his new wife during the making of the movie, who turned out to be the actress who portrayed Willie Scott!
HOPE THIS BACKGROUND MADE IT EASIER TO UNDERSTAND THIS FILM AND WHAT SPEILBERG WAS GOING THROUGH. It's like music artists that express their feelings at times in their music or their lyrics.
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Spielberg made this movie darker than all the other Indy films due to splitting with his wife at the time. Spielberg was unhappy and wanted to take out his anger on this film and do a "rub-my-pain-in-your-face" kind of thing. He sort of put his character in Indy in this film to show his wife that he was hurt, tortured and even turned evil temporarily because of her. But fortunately, he found his new wife during the making of the movie, who turned out to be the actress who portrayed Willie Scott!
HOPE THIS BACKGROUND MADE IT EASIER TO UNDERSTAND THIS FILM AND WHAT SPEILBERG WAS GOING THROUGH. It's like music artists that express their feelings at times in their music or their lyrics.