Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
A Shanghai nightclub deal gone wrong in 1935 drops the archaeologist, a lounge singer and a twelve-year-old pickpocket into rural India, where a starving village begs them to recover its sacred stone — and its children — from a cult reborn in the catacombs beneath a maharajah's palace. The serial matinee machinery of the first film is turned toward the macabre: sacrificial pits, enslaved children, a heart pulled beating from a chest. Its darkness, with Gremlins the same summer, pushed the American ratings board to invent PG-13.
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- continues ↑ Raiders of the Lost Ark
- ↓ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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