The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones arrive on DVD on October 23, in a 12-disc boxed set (
see the original announcement here). Here's a look at what's on the eighth disc.
Spring Break Adventure (1:35:59). It's 1916, and high school student Indiana Jones is living with his dad in Princeton, New Jersey, working as a soda jerk. Spring break is fast approaching, and all Indy can think of is taking his girlfriend Nancy (daughter of cliffhanger author Edward Stratemeyer) to the prom in a slick new Bugati. The car's foreign engine is impossible to get parts for, but a favor from a professor working at Thomas Edison's laboratory raises his hopes. His plans are sidetracked when a mysterious break-in, the theft of an electric motor, and rumors of German spies result in a mystery that only Indy and Nancy can unravel.
Indy and his father then head to the southwest to visit family in Albuquerque. With his mischievous cousin Frank, Indy heads to Columbus, New Mexico to sew some wild oats when the town is suddenly attacked by Pancho Villa and his riders. Playing hero, Indy follows the Villistas into the desert and is soon taken captive. As a 16-year old itching for a good fight, Indy is stirred by Villa's words, and joins his cause, riding with the Villistas as General Pershing chases them throughout the desert. Indy meets and befriends the Belgian expatriate Remy, witnesses the intensity of a young George S. Patton, and also finds a murderer who escaped the law eight years earlier in Cairo in this adventure that sets the teenage Indy on a path that will lead him to war-torn Europe.
Spring Break Adventure stars Sean Patrick Flanery as Indy, Lloyd Owen as Henry Jones, and Ronny Coutteure as Remy. Guest stars Robyn Lively (Wild Cats, Teen Witch) as Nancy Strattemeyer, Francesco Quinn (Platoon, "24") as Jose, Mike Moroff (From Dusk Till Dawn, Three Bad Men) as Pancho Villa, Mark L. Taylor (High School Musical 2, Arachnophobia) as Professor Thompson, Clark Gregg ("The New Adventures of Old Christine", "The West Wing") as Dickinson, and James Handy ("Alias", "NYPD Blue") as Frank Brady.
- This movie is made up of the second season episodes, "Princeton, February 1916" and the second half of the pilot episode, Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal. Princeton first aired on March 20, 1993. Jackal aired March 4, 1992.
- When originally part of the pilot, the Mexico segment followed the "Egypt, 1908" half of My First Adventure, and so the mystery that begins in that part (the search for a stolen jackal headpiece) of the story is resolved by the end.
- Actor Mike Moroff, who plays Pancho Villa, has a personal connection to his role: his grandfather actually road with Villa, and Moroff inherited several love letters written by Villa. "My father grew up in Chilhuahua, Mexico, where Pancho Villa was from," says Moroff. "He was my father's hero."
Production Credits: Director of Photography: David Tattersall; Editors: Edgar Burcksen, Louise Rubacky, Paul Martin Smith, GBFE; Production Designers: Gavin Bocquet, Ricky Eyres, Barbara Kretschmer, Jeffrey Ginn; Costume Designers: Charlotte Holdich, Louise Page, Peggy Farrell; Music Composed by Laurence Rosenthal; Executive Producer: George Lucas; Produced by Rick McCallum; Princeton written by Matthew Jacobs; Mexico screenplay by Jonathan Hales, Story by George Lucas; Princeton segment directed by Joe Johnston; Mexico segment directed by Carl Schultz.