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Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom (1984)

Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom
PG
Action
Adventure

Release Date
May 23, 1984
Director
Steven Spielberg
Cast
Harrison Ford , Kate Capshaw , Jonathan Ke Quan , Amrish Puri , Roshan Seth , Philip Stone
Runtime
118
Main Genre
Action
Writers
Willard Huyck , Gloria Katz , George Lucas
Tagline
If adventure has a name... it must be Indiana Jones.
Franchise
Indiana Jones

Summary

Indiana Jones finds himself on a new adventure, trekking across Asia with a gold-digging woman and a young child to rescue a village's missing children and find a magic stone. But, along the way he must contend with an evil cult.

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