Indiana Jones And The Thread Of Cash-Ins

[Doomhunter]

Originally Posted by By_His_Strypes

haha, it's interesting if the roles were reversed. High Road is a decent movie though. It gave Tom a chance to see what he could have been like as Indy. I didn't see that one until home video though. I did see both of the King Solomon Mines films (w/ Richard Chamberlain) in the theater. The first one being the most of fun of the two, and if people think Temple of Doom has racist overtures, it pales in comparison to The Lost City of Gold. Cannon can get away w/ that.

The problem with High Road to China for Tom was that Selleck was given the secondary role in that one, with most of the adventure type stuff going to the Bess Armstrong character

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

Do you mean "The African Queen"? I don't recall Bogie ever making a film with Meryl Streep.

D-OH, of course I do

[Aloha from Hawaii 73]

MacGyver 80s also imitated Indy

[film11]

Originally Posted by ravenus

D-OH, of course I do

She did hit the water in The River Wild tho.

[bigdaddyhorse]

Originally Posted by Alan T

[Show spoiler]

I'd say Gwendoline owes much more to Barbarella than Raiders, and it was based on an existing comic-strip.

[RCRochester]

Another one based on a pre-existing comic strip but clearly a film made to cash in on Indy...

[whiteberry]

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by bigdaddyhorse

I'd say Gwendoline owes much more to Barbarella than Raiders, and it was based on an existing comic-strip.

You're probably right, I haven't seen it since the late 90's.

[Doomhunter]

Not sure if it was mentioned, there was also the tv show Bring ‘Em Back Alive (with the replacement Babylon 5 commander), which ran around the same time as Tales of the Gold Monkey

[gpn]

I think an honorable mention should be given to "Secret of the Incas" as it's a super-obvious inspiration for Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[HD Canuck]

[Robbie The Robot]

African Queen is a good call. I recently watched King Solomon's Mines and Secret of the Incas and I get the influence but boy are they a slog.

African Queen is far more engaging and quite a great story with that right level of love interest antagonism a good Indy film had.