In 1935, Indiana Jones narrowly escapes the clutches of Lao Che, a crime boss in Shanghai, China. With his 11-year-old Chinese sidekick Short Round and the nightclub singer Willie Scott in tow, Indy flees Shanghai on an airplane that, unbeknownst to them, is owned by Lao Che. While the three of them are asleep on the plane, the pilots dump the fuel and parachute out, leaving the plane to crash over the Himalayas. Indy, Shorty, and Willie discover the sabotage and narrowly manage to escape by jumping out of the plane on an inflatable raft. They ride down the mountain slopes and fall into a raging river, eventually arriving at the village of Mayapore in northern India. The impoverished villagers believe the three to have been sent by Shiva to retrieve the sacred lingam stone stolen from their shrine, as well as the community's missing children, from evil forces in the nearby Pankot Palace. During the journey to Pankot, Indy hypothesizes that the stone may be one of the five fabled Sankara stones that promise fortune and glory.
MPAA Rating: | PG |
Genre: | Action, Adventure |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Kathleen Kennedy, George Lucas, Frank Marshall, Robert Watts |
Directed By: | Steven Spielberg |
Written By: | George Lucas, Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz |
Cast: | Roy Chiao, Katie Leigh, Lorraine Doyle, Julie Kirk, Philip Stone, Chua Kah Joo, Ric Young, Akio Mitamura, Dharmadasa Kuruppu, Ruby De Mel, Bhasker Patel, D.R. Nanayakkara, Nizwar Karanj, Denavaka Hamine, Jonathan Ke Quan, Pat Roach, Ahmed El Shenawi, Michael Yama, Dickey Beer, David Yip, Iranganie Serasinghe, Stany De Silva, Moti Makan, George Lucas, Mellan Mitchell, Arthur F. Repola, Roshan Seth, Rex Ngui, Sidney Ganis, Amrish Puri, Dharshana Panangala, Dan Aykroyd, Frank Olegario, Philip Tan, Kate Capshaw, Alex Claus, Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Harrison Ford |
In Theaters: | May 23, 1984 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 58 minutes |
Production: | Paramount Pictures, Lucasfilm |
Budget: | $28,000,000 |
Box Office: | $179,870,271 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Netflix, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |