Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

1935, a year before Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indy escapes a crime boss in Shanghai with nightclub singer Willie Scott and the boy Short Round, and the trio crash-land in an Indian village. The villagers ask him to recover a sacred stone and the village children, taken to Pankot Palace. There Indy finds a Thuggee cult working the children as slaves in mines, hunting for the Sankara stones. High priest Mola Ram makes him drink a potion that puts him in a trance. Short Round snaps him out of it, and the trio free the children. On a rope bridge, Mola Ram falls, and the stone goes home.

1. Behind the scenesThe film that created PG-13

   The cultists and the violence rattled enough people that this film and Gremlins fed the debate over age ratings. Within two months the US created PG-13. Both films were released as PG, not PG-13.

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2. Behind the scenesFord filmed with a damaged spine

   Harrison Ford herniated a spinal disc doing a somersault in the bedroom assassin scene. A hospital bed was brought on set so he could rest between takes, and he showed up every day.

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3. ReferenceClub Obi-Wan

   The opening scene takes place in a Shanghai nightclub called Club Obi-Wan. Another nod from Lucas to Star Wars.

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