Adventures of Young Indiana Jones ~ Paramount Entertainment ~=20action/adventure/drama/history/

Format: DVD/Movie/Documentaries/10 disk set
Special Features: Special Features offer background documentaries on famous authors, newspaper reporters, wars and other events referred to in the movies.  Full screen.
Rated: US not-rated/ CAN rated PG

This special 10 DVD set outlines the life of Indiana Jones as a young  man and is a must for lovers of Indiana Jones starring Harrison Ford. We see  young Jones search for love, for work to pay for the archaeology courses needed to  realize his dreams, his fantastic knack for getting out of scrapes and hard spots and   his turmoil over the relationship with his father. Sean Patrick Flannery  is a worthy actor to play as the young man who will grow into the adventurer  Harrison Ford has immortalized and one we've all come to love. As in all action  movies, the setting is constantly changing giving us new sights, sounds and  excitement as Indy races through each one making his mark in the lives of others.

DISK 1-Tales of Innocence-North Italy to Morocco 1917

You'll laugh as you follow Indy and Earnest Hemingway in the battle  to win the same beautiful woman who seems to have more than one suitor. Neither  gets the girl. Later, Indy meets Edith Wharton, a famous author, and uses her  as a  cover for his investigation into who is responsible for selling arms to  the enemy. After his mission is completed, he and Ms. Wharton meet Lowell  Thomas, who asks for an interview with Ms. Wharton. In the Special Features of  this disk the viewer can learn about Edith Wharton, Earnest Hemingway, and Lowell  Thomas as well as the French Foreign Legion.

DISK 2-Masks of Evil-Istanbul to Transylvania 1918

The Turkish war is on and Indy meets with Ataturk Revolutionaries. Here he meets Halide Edib, a woman considered the greediest person around.  Later, Indy goes to Transylvania and meets Dracula. Special Features tell us more  about Halide Edib, her life and writing; the Ataturk Revolution, the Ottoman  Empire and last, but certainly the most interesting, the life of Dracula: Fact & Fiction.

DISK 3-Treasure of the Peacock's Eye-Egypt to Java to South Pacific  1919

The war will end in one hour and Indy must get a certain soldier and  bring him back to France, but when he arrives at the front line, the man gets  shot. His dying words are: The Peacock's Eye, you must get back the  Peacock's Eye. The shout that proclaims the war is over rings throughout the country side,  and Indy begins a chase to the South Pacific and back to get the little box the  man has. Though Indy gets the box back, he doesn't get the Peacock's Eye.  Special Features gives us three documentaries to cover special characters Indy meets as well as the war in New Guinea.

DISK 4-The Winds of Change-Paris to Princeton 1919

Indy watches as Woodrow Wilson and other Heads of State sign the  peace treaty with Germany. After the meeting, Indy makes it home to see his father.  Unable to solve their relationship problems, Indy takes to the road again. No  Special Features on this disk.

DISK 5-The Winds of Change-Paris to Princeton 1919

Special Features only. Documentaries covering The Paris Peace  Conference, Woodrow Wilson, Gertrude Bell, Ho Chi Minh, Paul Robeson, and Robert Goddard flesh out the meetings in which Indy participated in the movie on Disk  4.

DISK 6-Mystery of the Blues-Chicago 1920

Still determined to study to become an archeologist, Indy runs about  Chicago trying to find work so he can pay his college tuition, hoping for a nice  relationship with one of the women he meets. In the process, Indy learns  how to play the Saxophone, the Blues and Jazz. He's hot.

DISK 7-Mystery of the Blues-Chicago 1920

Again Special Features only. In his pursuits in Disk 6, Indy has met  A Capone and Eliot Ness. He's learned Jazz and the Blues during the era  of Prohibition. SF covers these points in depth giving us a better understanding of each one.

DISK 8-Scandal of 1920-New York City 1920

The title speaks for itself. Special Features include Tin Pan Alley,  The Algonquin Round Table, and Broadway. Yes, Indy has work involving  Broadway. Here he gets indoctrinated into acting and what makes a good play.

DISK 9-Hollywood Follies-Hollywood 1920

Again, the title speaks for itself. Indy is thrown into the  excitement of making movies when he accepts a job to go to Hollywood and tell Erich  von Stroheim that he must finish his film in 10 days or be shut down. Sounds  easy, doesn't it. Not so easy as Indy soon learns. Here again, we see  Indy's exceptional talent for getting through obstacles as he deals with  Stroheim.

DISK 10-

This disk offers the viewers an Interactive Time Line, a historical  lecture given by H. W. Brands, Professor of History at the University of Texas  at Austin and last, but not least, an interactive game called Hunting for  Treasure.

In my opinion this is the greatest collector series of Movie/DVDs  ever put together because I am already in love with Indiana Jones, the older  gentlemen, like so many other women over the world. After viewing these 9 movies, I  am now in love with the younger Indy Jones. Genius, adventurer, lover, gentleman, Indiana Jones whether young or old captures the heart of the  stay-at-home mom, young career woman, and even the teenager who sometimes feel life is  passing them by. I would have liked more of a connection between the young Jones  and the Jones we know of the Temple of Doom, Last Crusade and Raiders of the  Lost Ark. However, this lack of connections does not lessen the pleasure of  watching the 9 movie DVDs in this boxed set. One may use any DVD player, including the  DVD/CD ROM of the computer to view the movies, but Disk 10 can not be enjoyed  unless one uses the computer's DVD ROM or DVD/CD ROM. The set is worth having  and is a true collectors' item.