The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure (1999) (V)

Directors:

Joe Johnston
Carl Schultz

Writers:

Matthew Jacobs (writer) (Princeton segment) &
Jonathan Hales (writer) (Mexico segment) ...

Genre:

Adventure

Plot Keywords:

Young Versions Of Characters | Mexico | New Jersey | Fedora | Indiana Jones

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Sean Patrick Flanery	...	Indiana Jones
Lloyd Owen	...	Henry Jones, Sr. (also archive footage)
Ronny Coutteure	...	Remy Baudouin, Belgian-Mexican revolutionary (archive footage)
Robyn Lively	...	Nancy Stratemeyer (archive footage)
Francesco Quinn	...	Francois (archive footage)
Mike Moroff	...	Pancho Villa (archive footage)
Mark L. Taylor	...	Professor Thompson (archive footage)
Clark Gregg	...	Dickinson (archive footage)
James Handy	...	Frank Brady (archive footage)
Antonio Valero	...	Julio Cárdenas (archive footage)
Peter Marinker	...	Pershing (archive footage)
Stuart Milligan	...	Lt. George Patton (archive footage)
Stephen Graf	...	Frank (also archive footage)
Carlos Douglas	...	Mexican Banker (archive footage)
Ed Bishop	...	Sentry (archive footage)

Runtime:

Canada:96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish | French | German

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Company:

Amblin Entertainment

Trivia:

Released on video as part seven of "The complete adventures of Indiana Jones" in October 1999, this entry consists of the "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (1992) second season episode "Princeton, February 1916" and the "Mexico, March 1916" half of the pilot episode (Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal). As such, the second half heavily relies on knowledge from the first part (Egypt, May 1908), which has not yet been released.

Movie Connections:

Edited from "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Princeton, February 1916 (#2.6)" (1993)

Not exactly a Cancun booze-fest

Back when having a car was about as rare as three-legged ballet dancer Indy aims to impress everyone at school by turning up to the prom in a Bugatti race-car and put tormentor Butch to shame. His girlfriend's dad is Edward Stratemayer (the guy who created the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and Tom Swift) and promises to loan him the Bugatti until the engine fails. Desperate to get it fixed in time Indy takes it to Edison Industries to have the guys in the science lab fit a new electric battery into it.

But since the oil company's are such a fiendish bunch they steal the plans for the battery and trash the lab, leaving Indy to rescue them on his own if he wants to make an impression at the prom.

In the second half Indy travels to Mexico with his cousin to have a good time in a whorehouse but he is kidnapped by a bunch of Mexican Revolutionaries and pressured into fighting for their cause. He gets to meet Pancho Villa, trash William Randolph Hearst's mansion south of the border and antagonize General Patton. In the end he just wants to go home but not before getting revenge on Demetrius, the baddie who eluded him six years earlier in Egypt.

A solid adventure with a good cast, though it's weird seeing Lloyd Owen still play the Connery role since his is one year YOUNGER than Flannery who plays his son. It works though...somehow.