Indiana Jones - Giftset (Widescreen Edition) [VHS]

.com As with Star Wars , the George Lucas-produced Indiana Jones trilogy was not just a plaything for kids but an act of nosta ic affection toward a lost phenomenon: the cliffhanging movie serials of the past. Episodic in structure and with fate hanging in the balance about every 10 minutes, the Jones features tapped into Lucas's extremely profitable Star Wars formula of modernizing the look and feel of an old, but popular, story model. Steven Spielberg directed all three films, which are set in the late 1930s and early '40s: the comic book-like Raiders of the Lost Ark , the spooky, Gunga Din -inspired Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom , and the cautious but entertaining Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade . Fans and critics disagree over the order of preference, some even finding the middle movie nearly repugnant in its violence. (Pro- Temple of Doom people, on the other hand, believe that film to be the most disarmingly creative and emotionally effective of the trio.) One thing's for sure: Harrison Ford's swaggering, two-fisted, self-effacing performance worked like a charm, and the art of cracking bullwhips was probably never quite the iconic activity it soon became after Raiders . Supporting players and costars were very much a part of the series, too--Karen Allen, Sean Connery (as Indie's dad), Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Denholm Elliot, River Phoenix, and John Rhys-Davies among them. Years have passed since the last film (another is supposedly in the works), but emerging film buffs can have the same fun their predecessors did picking out numerous references to Hollywood classics and B-movies of the past. --Tom Keogh

This Complete Movie Collection contains: "Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark" "Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom" "Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade" For a limited time the VHS gift set will also contain a free copy of: "The Adventures Of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure Of The Peacock's Eye". Chapter 18 in the complete adventures of Indiana Jones finds Indy vagabonding around the South Pacific on a treasure hunt for a fabled lost diamond. The war in Europe ends but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words, "The eye of the peacock!" send him and Remy on a thrilling treasure hunt for one of Alexander the Great's most prized possessions. Pursued by a dangerous one-eyed man, Indy follows the trail of the diamond from London to Alexandria to the South [...].