Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | Steven Spielberg

Published: Feb. 8, 2019, 11:55 p.m.

While INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM is a sequel to\xa0Raiders of the Lost Ark, it\u2019s really a prequel, set in 1935, a year before.\xa0 Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)\xa0finds himself in Shanghai on the hunt for a precious diamond, but gets in over his head, chased out of town with his assistant, a young boy nicknamed Short Round (Jonathan Ke Quan), and Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw), a ditsy, blonde, nightclub singer.\xa0 Having to make a hasty exit into the Himalayas from a crashing airplane, Indy and friends find themselves in a starving village in India, who see their visitors as saviors destined to save their children who they believe have been taken away by resurrected forces of evil at a formerly abandoned palace.\xa0 The trio set off for the palace in search of lost children, a sacred stone\u2026and fortune and glory.