Friday, May 19, 2017
Indiana Jones
As Indiana Jones Harrison Ford swash-buckles his way from disaster to disaster. Believability is not an issue as this non-stop thrill ride keeps the laughs coming without let up. In Temple of Doom Willi is along as comic female relief and Short Round is the perfect sidekick—batman, security guard, chauffeur. [Male chauvinism and political correctness be damned.]
Never without his trademark rumpled hat and bull whip the origin of which we see in outing three. The other constants are a very loud gun, chase scenes involving horses though he seems at home on any conveyance and those plane trips with red lines arcing across maps of the world. One man's grave-robber and perpetrator of cultural theft is another man's archaeologist but this one does not spend years brushing away dust with a whisk.
