100 Words or Less – The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom (1999)

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Title – The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom

Released – 1999

Director – Peter Macdonald

Starring – Sean Patrick Flanery, Ronny Coutteure, Paul Freeman.

Review – This Young Indy adventure came bundled with the original three films when I received the VHS box set in the 90s, so I always just considered it equally canon as the Harrison Ford trilogy. And it holds up!

The first half is great, with the eponymous locomotive still being incredibly cool. There’s a terrific shootout and tightrope act atop the moving train, which rocks. But I’d forgotten how good the second half was. The setpiece on the balloon is incredible, with Indy patching holes while fighting off Germans. Feels like proper Indiana Jones.

Looking forward to watching more of these.

Jack Bumby

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If I'm not watching a television show or a film, I'm playing a game or have my nose in a book. "I now believed that the lurking fear was no material thing, but a wolf-fanged ghost that rode the midnight lightning." - H.P. Lovecraft, 'The Lurking Fear'.