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"INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM"
(1984) (Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw) (PG)

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QUICK TAKE:
Action/Adventure: Indiana Jones is sent by the shaman of a suffering village to retrieve a sacred stone from a palace that houses a disturbing cult.
PLOT:
Intrepid archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones (HARRISON FORD) finds trouble in Shanghai when business with Chinese gangster Lao Che (ROY CHIAO) over the ashes of a Chinese emperor doesn't quite produce the reward he was after. In the ensuing scuffle, he receives the at-first unwelcome company of nightclub singer Willie Scott (KATE CAPSHAW), as well as the ingenuity of Short Round (KE HUY QUAN), who gets him away from Che and his men.

However, the plane they escape in belongs to Lao Che and with it, the pilots who exit in mid-air by his orders. Indiana, Willie, and Short Round are forced to jump out and they soon arrive in India, where they come upon a village that has had much misfortune, first with the children of the village being kidnapped and secondly with a sacred stone disappearing that gave the village everything it had. Without it, drought has killed crops, and the villagers are starving.

The shaman's insistence that he find the missing stone sends Indiana to Pankot Palace, where a young maharaja is in power, but more as a cover for something incredibly sinister: The rise once again of the dangerous Thuggee cult, thought to have been destroyed hundreds of years ago. Now it's not only Willie that Indiana has to contend with, but also the demonic high priest of the cult (AMRISH PURI) and the forces of the Thuggees that conspire to defeat Indiana.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?
With much adventure and action, and a roller coaster ride through a mine, there's a lot for them to want to see. However, due to violent content, all this may not be appropriate for younger kids.
WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG
There is no official reason from the MPAA, but it would be for language, sexual content, and violence (with the latter being part of the reason for the later creation of the PG-13 rating).
CAST AS ROLE MODELS:
  • HARRISON FORD plays Indiana Jones, archaeologist, adventurer, and very well-traveled, from Shanghai to India, where he is dispatched by a village's shaman to retrieve a sacred stone that governs the life of the village. And there are also the missing children to find. Indiana is the kind who, while he would likely be just as daring if he went at these adventures alone, couldn't work without who he has at his side, and that includes his young sidekick Short Round, and Willie Scott, a singer from a nightclub in Shanghai, whom he is visibly annoyed with until, of course, Indiana and Willie see certain values in one another. Indiana curses once, uses his famous whip and other weapons, drinks once, and engages in sexual double entendres with Willie.
  • KATE CAPSHAW plays Willie Scott, a singer in a Shanghai nightclub owned by the Chinese gangster Lao Che, who unwittingly becomes part of Indiana's travel group when Indiana has her hold in her bosom the antidote to the poison he accidentally drank. She loves diamonds, luxury, anything that points to a spoiled life, but hates the outdoors. She curses a few times and engages in sexual double entendres with Indiana, wanting him quite a bit.
  • KE HUY QUAN plays Short Round, Indiana's young sidekick, who's always quick-thinking, doing whatever a situation calls for, including being the one driving Indiana's car during a chase. He's adept at karate, annoyed at times by Willie, but always there for Indiana for whatever requires his help.
  • AMRISH PURI plays Mola Ram, the sadistic high priest of the Thuggee cult, the master of a most unpleasant ceremony which features him actually reaching into a man's chest and pulling out his heart. He precipitates nearly all of the violence in the film, mostly brought onto Indiana.
  • ROSHAN SETH plays Chattar Lal, who bills himself as the prime minister to the young maharaja---officious looking and pooh-poohs all of Indiana's claims about what the shaman told him---but is clearly as deep in the Thuggee cult as Mola Ram is, attacking Indiana when he tries to bring Willie up from a swirling lava pit before she ends up in it.
  • RAJ SINGH plays Zalim Singh, the maharaja of Pankot Palace, quite young and controlled by Chattar Lal, though he does not realize the extent. He vows that in his kingdom, the Thuggee cult will not roam, but indeed they do, even as far as him being possessed by the powers of the cult and getting involved in the fight against Indiana and his cohorts, especially Short Round.
  • PHILIP STONE plays Captain Philip Blumburtt, a minor character at first, who has come from Britain to investigate what he believes is not at all right in Pankot Palace. Later, he plays a more significant part.
  • ROY CHIAO plays Lao Che, Indiana's adversary at the beginning of the film, who prefers to keep everything rather than give what he owes to people. Indiana gives him the ashes of the first Chinese emperor, and Che willingly gives Indiana the diamond he asked for, but not without poison mixed in with champagne that Indiana drinks and in exchange for the antidote, Che asks for the diamond back. A violent scuffle ensues which ends on a plane that Indiana thinks he's making a successful escape on, but the plane is owned by Che and so are the pilots, who jump out in mid-air after letting the fuel out of the tank.
  • CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO

    HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE


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    (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below).


    OUR WORD TO PARENTS:
    The following is a brief summary of the content found in this PG-rated action/adventure. Profanity consists of at least 1 "s" word, while some religious and colorful phrases are also uttered. Sexually-related double entendres (and longing) are bandied about by Indiana Jones and Willie, while she exhibits cleavage in a few scenes, and so do belly dancers in the palace.

    Violence consists of the inner workings of a cult, such as one man being used as a sacrifice and his heart being ripped out of his chest, as well as whippings, gunfire, karate, and many deaths as a result of the cult's power and Jones' attempts to stop all of it. There is also a plane crash, an underground room with spikes coming from above and below, and a precarious sequence on a rickety bridge hanging downward.

    Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while all sorts of potentially imitative behavior is present. The blood of a god of the cult is used as a drug, and at least one character drinks.

    Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content.

    For those prone to visually induced motion sickness, there is a roller coaster ride through a mine towards the end.


    ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE
  • As the nightclub audience applauds, empty champagne glasses are seen, as well as two champagne bottles wrapped in white towels, in silver buckets. A waiter pours champagne while Jones speaks to Lao Che (and Jones unknowingly the poison in that). Champagne corks then pop all over the restaurant and champagne spills out of the bottles, and Jones woozily walks in front of a group of chorus girls, mainly due to the effect of the poison.
  • Before going inside the plane that has been arranged for him, Jones tells Art Weber that he owes him a gin.
  • A teenage-looking boy hands a skull to Mola Ram which contains the blood of Kali. Another man forces Jones' mouth open and Kali pours the blood in. It is said that when consumed (involuntarily, according also to the testimony of another victim), the blood causes a person to basically live one long nightmare and be possessed by the forces of Kali.
  • BLOOD/GORE
  • Lao's son sports a cast on his hand, missing a finger, with a barely noticeable fringe of blood across the top.
  • While the champagne corks pop, one of Lao's henchmen takes the chance to shoot the waiter, Wu Han, who was working with Jones. This is found out when Han starts bleeding through his white shirt.
  • Jones finds blood on his hand after touching a statue.
  • During dinner at Pankot Palace, full-size bugs are served and the flesh is seen; eyeballs float in a steaming soup with nerve endings encrusted around the eyes, and monkey heads served in glass cups contain "chilled monkey brains," according to one diner and he takes in a red spoonful. With the bugs, the same diner burps after finishing his bug. While Willie watches the same bug being consumed across from her at the table, she tells Short Round to give her his hat and after he asks why, she says, "Because I'm going to puke in it," and Short Round immediately grabs it back.
  • Short Round touches an underground wall and it suddenly breaks apart, revealing three tied-up skeletons.
  • During a Thuggee cult ceremony, one man is locked in a cage and chained to the bars. Mola Ram reaches right into the man's chest and pulls out his heart, which is still beating, though the man's wound mysteriously heals and he's still alive. However, he's lowered into a swirling lava pit and soon, he catches fire, and burns alive, and the heart bursts into flames in Mola Ram's hand as it happens.
  • A teenage-looking boy hands a skull to Mola Ram which contains the blood of Kali. Another man forces Jones' mouth open and Mola Ram pours it in, but Jones holds it and then spits it at them. One of the men then whips Jones, and blood is seen on his back through his shirt.
  • Chattar Lal briefly struggles with Jones before slashing him across his chest with a knife, just one mark added to many. And as Jones tries to retrieve the stones, the whip marks across Jones' back are seen briefly.
  • A burly, muscular man (hereby known in this category and others as Big Muscles for matters of distinction), hoists Jones on his shoulders and blood can be seen again on the back of Jones' shirt.
  • Blood can be seen on the lips of the muscle man and on the lips of the maharaja.
  • The sarong of one character gets caught in a rolling pillar meant to crush rocks and he's dragged under it and after a few seconds, a trail of blood is seen on the pillar.
  • As Jones hangs onto the bridge, blood is seen on the back of his shirt.
  • DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE
  • After being introduced to Jones, Willie says that she always thought archaeologists were "funny little men searching for their mommies."
  • In lieu of paying what he owes, Lao Che poisons Jones with champagne that he drinks, and in exchange for the antidote, Lao Che asks for the diamond that he just gave him.
  • After Jones retrieves the antidote from Willie's bosom, she angrily tells him, "Oh, I hope you choke."
  • Upon seeing Jones in his trademark outfit, Willie asks, "So what are you supposed to be, a lion tamer?"
  • Jones calls Willie "doll" in telling her that he wants silence for a while.
  • After their raft lands in rapids, Willie exclaims to Jones that "I hate the water and I hate being wet and I hate you!" While camping for the night, Willie, at this point the constant complainer, states, "I hate being outside." Jones responds by telling Short Round, "Biggest trouble with her is the noise."
  • Mola Ram, the high priest of the Thuggee cult, is sadistic, psychotic, and very much into making the cult rise into prominence in the world. His most disturbing talent, among others, is literally reaching into a man's chest, and pulling out his heart, and it still beats. Not that the man asked to be used as a sacrifice anyway, but Ram doesn't care in the least. Naturally, he's violent towards Jones and forces him to drink the blood of Kali, which brings one long nightmare upon the consumer, causing them to be possessed by the power of Kali. He commands a large army, leads an admittedly impressive set up for cult ceremonies under Pankot Palace, and is the standard villain who knows what he wants from what he does.
  • FRIGHTENING SCENES
  • Scenes listed under "Violence," "Blood/Gore" and "Jump Scenes" may be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to younger viewers and/or those with low tolerance levels for such material.
  • Jones throws a flaming kabob at one of Lao's henchmen, hitting the man in the stomach.
  • In the jungle, vampire bats fly overhead and one screams right in front of Willie.
  • In darkness in a passageway, Short Round steps on what he thinks sounds like cookies, but when Jones puts his torch to the ground, it turns out to be thousands of bugs crawling around.
  • Jones and Short Round enter a room that's not as harmless as it looks, when Jones tells Short Round to stand against the wall. He does and that starts spikes coming down from the ceiling. Jones tries to stop it, and also tries to enlist the help of Willie who comes near the room from the same passageway, and manages to stop the spikes for a minute, but her panic over the bugs closes the exits of the room and starts the spikes again.
  • Jones finds the makings of the Thuggee cult, with shirtless men chanting and swaying on their knees from left to right, a fire pit, and angry statues, including the centerpiece, a statue of Kali with chains in its fists, sporting a skull necklace, and looking very unpleasant. In these surroundings, one man is taken as a sacrifice, chained to the bars of a cage, locked inside, and Mola Ram reaches right into his chest and pulls out his heart, which is still beating, though the wound on the man's chest heals and he's still alive, though not to his benefit. The cage is positioned over a swirling lava pit through an opening on the floor near where Mola Ram stands, and it's lowered into the lava pit. As the man gets closer and closer to the lava, he catches fire and burns alive, and the heart in Mola Ram's hand catches fire as well.
  • After being forced to drink the blood of Kali, Jones struggles with himself in a roomful of candles and is soon possessed by Kali, soon doing the work asked of him by Mola Ram. There is a moment during this where Short Round tries to make Jones snap out of it, and Jones slaps him down to the ground.
  • One sequence towards the end takes place deep in the mines, as a kind of roller coaster ride, as two carts rush through the mines.
  • Jones and other characters stand on a vast rickety bridge, which Jones splits in two, though hanging on.
  • GUNS/WEAPONS
  • Pistols/Tommy guns/Whips/Knives/Swords/Bows and arrows: Carried and/or used to threaten, wound, or kill others. See "Violence" for details.
  • IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR
  • Phrases: "Oh, sh*t," "Okey dokey, Dr. Jones/Indy," "Hold on to your potatoes!" "Oh nuts," "Holy smoke!" "Hey Dr. Jones, no time for love," "Okay, doll?" "Scram," "Am-scray," "That's no cookies," "Are you crazy/nuts?" "I kill you!" "Drop him down!" "Figures," "He no nuts," "He's crazy" and "You fool!"
  • All of the action, fighting and other stunts might be enticing for some kids to imitate.
  • Some kids may be tempted to imitate the foreign languages or accents, such as that of Short Round.
  • During the opening chase scene, Short Round drives Jones' car.
  • In order to reach the main stage of where the Thuggee cult's activities happen, Jones walks across a high ledge. He then lashes his whip to the tusk of an elephant statue and swings across.
  • To make his way through the underground area while avoiding the angry mob of men, Jones lashes his whip to a light fixture and swings across.
  • As Jones contends with the muscular man, Willie shouts "Go Indy!" and makes punching motions.
  • Willie spits in the face of the possessed Jones.
  • JUMP SCENES
  • A slew of vampire bats fly overhead in the jungle and one ends up in front of Willie, screaming, and she returns the noise.
  • Short Round touches a wall and it suddenly breaks apart, revealing three tied-up skeletons.
  • While Willie watches Jones make his way to where the stones are in the Thuggee temple, a man pops up suddenly and grabs her.
  • MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE)
  • An extreme amount of suspenseful music occurs in the film.
  • MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE)
  • None
  • PROFANITY
  • At least 1 "s" word, 6 uses of "Oh my G*d." and 1 use of "For Christ's sake."
  • SEX/NUDITY
  • A shirtless, muscular man bangs a gong.
  • A chorus of fan-waving women surround Willie, dressed in short skirts.
  • Part of Willie's dress is backless, ending above her rear.
  • Tap-dancing women in silver dresses sport short skirts and black stockings.
  • Other chorus women pull red cloths out of the breast pockets of their fellow dancers, near their middling cleavage.
  • In his car, Jones, in a non-sexual manner, reaches into Willie's bosom to retrieve the antidote to the poison and she exclaims, "Listen, I just met you for Christ's sake," and as he continues searching, she tells him, "Oh, I'm not that kind of girl." Short Round looks back from the driver's seat and exclaims, "Hey, Dr Jones, no time for love!"
  • One man in the village is shirtless and later accompanies Jones towards the palace.
  • Belly dancers dance in a circle, showing some cleavage.
  • Jones tells Short Round to "am-scray" into their room and he delivers some fruit to Willie, soon engaging in double entendres with her, both clearly attracted to one another. He notices that she's wearing her jewelry and says, "Wear your jewels to bed, princess?", and she responds, "Yeah, and nothing else." Willie then questions Jones about his profession, asking him if he does a lot of research and after he responds affirmatively, she asks him, "And what kind of research would you do on me?" "Nocturnal activities" is how he responds, leading up to a statement about primitive sexual practices. A flare-up ensues between the two after Jones makes his case known about how he doesn't find her very attractive and she nearly shouts that he'll be back in her room in five minutes. In their own rooms, each pacing in their own way, Willie lies on her stomach on her bed and her clothed rear can be seen, and Jones' shirt is half open, showing part of his chest. Five minutes pass and Willie storms out of her room, shouting at an under-attack Jones about what he's missing and then quietly says, "I could have been your greatest adventure."
  • Jones barges into Willie's room after getting rid of the intruder in his room and as she sees him, she gets up and dreamily sighs, "Oh, Indy." She thinks he's charging towards her and tells him, "Oh be gentle with me." He starts looking around the room and she repeats herself. She crouches on the bed, watching what he's doing and her clothed rear is seen again.
  • The female statues on the pillars in Willie's room exhibit cleavage and in examining them (for the device to move them and reveal a secret passageway) Jones puts his hands on the breasts of one of the statues, and Willie cuts in with, "Hey! I'm right here!"
  • In the temple of the Thuggee cult, shirtless men are on all fours, chanting and swaying from left to right.
  • Willie's ample cleavage can be seen as she whimpers on the bridge, and as she gets up after gunfire ceases, a significant amount of cleavage can be seen.
  • SMOKING
  • None.
  • TENSE FAMILY SCENES
  • The villagers parents are distraught over the disappearance (abduction) of their children, but this isn't played up much, and most of them are reunited at the end.
  • TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT
  • If this film is watched together as a family: What each member's favorite parts of the movie are and how all the elements intermingle to create what they like.
  • The Thuggee cult and its methods.
  • Child slavery and if it exists today in parts of the world.
  • One of Spielberg and Lucas' influences for the Indiana Jones movies came from equally adventurous, though creaky, 1930s movie serials that featured a dashing hero plunged into all sorts of dangers, only to come out okay by the end.
  • VIOLENCE
  • In a Shanghai nightclub, Jones contends with Lao Che and his son and henchmen, by grabbing Willie when she walks over to the table and holding a knife to her mid-section, demanding that Che give him what he's owed or "anything goes." Che agrees and hands over a diamond which Willie admires with great pleasure until Jones sticks the tip of the knife a little further toward her mid-section offscreen. Jones then drinks champagne given to him from the other side of the table. Che tells Jones that the champagne he drank contained poison and the antidote is all his in exchange for the diamond. However, Wu Han, whom Jones is working with and who is evidently undercover as a waiter in the restaurant, holds a gun at Che under a tray and Jones demands the antidote that way. But champagne corks popping all over the place gives one of Che's henchmen the opportunity to shoot Han and he does so, and Han dies after a moment's dialogue with Jones. Jones woozily walks in front of a few chorus girls due to the effect of the poison, and one of Lao's army men (or at least it looks that way by how many people show up to work at that moment), throws a kind of spear at Jones, but it lands inside a statue behind him. Jones throws a flaming kabob at one of Lao's henchmen, hitting the man in the stomach. He also flings a cymbal at one of the spear throwers, and it hits him in the face. The action continues with karate movements, Lao's son firing a Tommy gun and obviously enjoying it, and a reprise of the famous rolling rock from "Raiders of the Lost Ark," though this time as a gong cut down by Jones, that he uses to run behind with Willie, jump out the window and land in his car driven by Short Round, after which a chase begins between Jones and Lao and his men. A rickshaw, vegetable stands and lanterns, are all unwittingly involved in the chase and much gunfire is passed between Jones' car and Lao's car, killing at least one man.
  • As they slide down a snowy mountain, Jones, Willie, and Short Round see their plane crash into a mountain and explode.
  • While pacing his room and believing that Willie isn't coming, Jones is attacked by a man who emerges from the shadows of his room and wraps what seems to be a piece of wire around his neck. Jones struggles with the man, running backwards into the wall to try to shake him off, and Jones inadvertently knocks a lamp off the table with his elbow while trying to get the man off him. Punches are thrown and Jones uses his whip to choke the man as well, and the man elbows him in the stomach. Jones catches the man by the neck with his whip and the man struggles to free himself from it, though the fan catches it when it's thrown and its motions hang the man.
  • At the start of a sacrifical ceremony, Mola Ram reaches into a man's chest and pulls out his heart, which is still beating, though the wound on the man heals. He is then lowered into a swirling lava pit and as he gets closer to the lava, he bursts into flames and burns alive, and at that same second, the heart catches fire as well and screams are heard.
  • One of the men overseeing the child slaves in the mines whips one of the children offscreen and Jones throws a rock at the man, hitting him on one side of his head. Later, Jones starts to walk back and about seven men point knives at him.
  • A teenage-looking boy gives a skull to Mola Ram and another man forces open Jones' mouth so that the blood of Kali can be poured in and Jones can be possessed by Kali and be at the mercy of Mola Ram. But once the blood is in his mouth, Jones spits it at both of them.
  • The young maharaja places a voodoo doll of Jones on a fire and Jones screams.
  • One of the men whips Jones and the maharaja whips Short Round. Blood is seen through Jones' shirt during this act and later, in trying to retrieve the stones, whip marks can be seen on his back.
  • Short Round shakes Jones' arm and tries to get him to snap out of his possessed state, but Jones merely looks at Short Round and slaps him to the ground.
  • Jones punches one of the men in the stomach, then the face, and Short Round kicks two down. Another man tries to ram a stick at Jones, but he turns it into a pole-vaulting event and sends the man falling into the fiery pit. Jones takes the stick and smacks another man on the side and pushes another in the stomach with the stick.
  • Chattar Lal comes behind Jones with a knife and after a brief struggle, he slashes him across the chest.
  • Whipping is heard offscreen and one of the men overseeing the kids slides across the ground. The kids cheer and run away after they are freed from their chains and some of the other men try to whip the kids as they run away.
  • Jones' biggest adversary next to Mola Ram himself is a muscular, menacing man in the mines, who first has Jones by the throat right on the lip of a mine cart and then punches him in the chest. Then the menacing man hoists Jones on his shoulders and dumps him into another cart that, when the contents are dumped out, arrive onto a conveyor belt where the end result is a rolling pillar that crushes rock. Besides all the punching and a gas can and buckets and rocks being used as weapons, the maharaja also uses his Jones voodoo doll and causes Jones some great pain that gives the menacing man brief advantage in the fight. Short Round also gets into the act by attacking the maharaja and punching him as Jones punches the menacing man, leaving both with bloody lips, and soon, the sarong of one of the characters gets caught in the rolling pillar and they're dragged under and a trail of blood on the pillar marks their otherworldly exit.
  • Mola Ram dispatches a few men from his army to clash with Jones and there are swords in use, though for one man, the sword's not needed after Jones punches him in the stomach and he falls off the scaffolding. Short Round takes care of a few other men by causing one to trip after he knocks a barrel over into their path, and hits another man with a pipe, and yet another man he hits with a pipe causes the man to fall backwards into the two men following him and they all fall down. He also exhibits his karate skills as he karate kicks another man, punches a second man in the face, and does a roundhouse kick on a third.
  • One of the major effects sequences sees Jones, Willie, and Short Round riding fast in a mine cart through the track in the mine, and with it comes another cart laden with a few of Mola Ram's men, and there's gunfire from that side of the conflict, while Jones bangs the underside of a sand container with a shovel and sand spills onto the men in the cart. Jones takes a gun from a man in that cart and swings at them with it, and Jones also punches the men, after which they try to grab Short Round. Another man then jumps into Jones' cart with a knife and Jones elbows the man. The latter then comes back up and clocks Jones and Willie has the final word on that, punching the man right out of the cart.
  • At the same time as the roller coaster ride, Mola Ram commands his other men to bang at the foundation of an enormous water tank in the hopes of causing its collapse and flooding the water through the mine to try to drown Jones and his companions. After a few minutes, no more effort is needed and Jones, in his desire for water after stopping the cart with his right foot, desires water no more when the deluge comes right behind them. They race toward the end of the tunnel and then stand precariously on a mountainside, hanging on as the water rushes out the opening and down the mountain.
  • Two men jump in front of Jones with swords and he reaches for his gun (a throwback to "Raiders of the Lost Ark") but it's not in his hip holster. He smiles weakly and chuckles, and both men rush toward him. Jones takes the first man by his sword arm and knocks him down. He takes the second man by the neck and uses him to clash swords with the first man. He tangles them up and kicks them both away. But when one of the men gets up again and threatens him with the sword, he takes his whip, lashes it on to the man's arm and flings the sword away. After Jones chases the other man away, he looks at something off camera and then starts running, as a band of sword-wielding men of the same clothing brand as the previous two run after him.
  • The final sequence takes place on a long, rickety bridge that Jones slices in two with one swift blow of the sword he has, in order to shake off the threat of Mola Ram and his men, but it only works sporadically as a few men fall to the water and the alligators watching and waiting there for them (we see one of the latter rolling in the water, presumably with a body). Jones has a physical confrontation with Mola Ram, with a few punches thrown, and Mola Ram's men fire arrows at Jones from an opposite cliff.



  • Reviewed off DVD / Posted March 10, 2008

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