Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4971 in VHS
• Released on: 1999-10-26
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 96 minutes

From the back cover
Indiana Jones finds that spies, submarines and Mexican revolutionaries make for one wild spring break in this fast-paced, exciting story. Indy and his girlfriend Nancy Stratemeyer, whose father created the Nancy Drew mystery series, visit the fascinating laboratory of Inventor Thomas Edison. The two must contend with dangerous German spies as they struggle to keep Edison's top secret new invention out of the hands of hostile enemy agents. To keep him from getting into any more trouble, Indy is sent to visit his Aunt in New Mexico. While there, he is kidnapped by Pancho Villa and swept up into the Mexican Revolution. Chaotic, free wheeling border towns, a "Wild Bunch" style train robbery and a colorful barroom encounter with a young George Patton make for thrilling entertainment in this action packed movie.

Customer Reviews

A review of the entire series
These comments are based on the entire series as they have been currently released on video. When this show was first broadcast, it was loved by a certain 12-year-old boy (me). It had everything: adventure, love, history, interesting locations. I especially liked the "bookends" of 92-year-old Indy, where people always looked at him as just some old man, and they had no idea the amazing life he had lead.

So I decided, in a fit of nostalgia, to find the series on tape/DVD. I was shocked. There can only be one word for what they have done: asinine. None of the early 8-year-old episodes were published. Young-young Indy was even excised from what was originally the pilot and replaced with the Nancy Drew bit. While it was nice having new content, why waste it "erasing" old content? Even as a teenager and adult, episodes are skipped, so that what was once a more seam-less story of him traveling the globe jumps about with little explanation. Even 92-year-old Indy bookends are gone.

This is not the work of the Lucas of Star Wars. It is the work of the Lucas of Episode 2, and Guido shooting first in the cantina. (Can they really be the same man?)

The series has never been released on DVD, so there may still be hope. It would be nice to see the DVD box set be an attempt to archive ALL of the original series and later TV movies. If it was, I would be first in line and with money in hand.

Indiana leaves home enroute to the war
This movies marks the beginning of the Sean Patrick Flannery Young Indy adventures. The movie begins with Indy, still very naive, in high school. Whilst attempting to fix his transport for the high school prom, Indy and his girlfriend Nancy Stratemeyer become involved in a plot to steal secret plans from Thomas Edisons laboratories. It comes as no surprise that this half of the movie owes much to the old Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys style of mystery. Following the solving of the case, Indy does what most students do over spring break and heads down to Mexico, pretty much for the same reason as students do nowadays. Whilst crossing the border he is caught by Mexican bandits and idealistically decides to join their cause, seeing it as being more important than high school. Whilst in Mexico he also encounters an old enemy, Demetrius, who had stolen the sacred egyptian jackal in the very first episode of the series, My First Adventure. It is here that he also meets Remy. When they both realise their mistake at joining the revolution they embark upon a journey together to europe to fight in the great war, and so the adventure begins.....

young indy
This was a good video, and I've waited seven years for the series to be released. I was disappointed to find out that Old Indy is not even featured. Perhaps the worst thing they done was to put two episodes together with new footage. This didn't even look right because all of the actors are noticeably older, and Sean Patrick Flanery's hair is obviously longer in the back. They should have thought about these things beforehand, and perhaps filmed them this way in the first place, not try and finish them now as Star Wars Special Edition so tragically looked.