Off Topic: The Young Indiana Jones series

[selewis]

It's been 30 years since I read Lawrence's book. All I can remember of it now is that I liked it. He certainly was an odd bird though. He was good friends with GB Shaw who was one of the friends you referred to that encouraged him to publish. I believe that Shaw and the Webbs were among the few that were presented with one of the few 'first editions' that Lawrence himself set and hand printed.

Sandy

By the way I loved the movie.

OT but I'm surprised that no one has made a movie yet on Count Luckner. It's a great story that wouldn't need much embellishment. He raided Allied shipping during WWI with great success in a sailing ship. And, according to Thomas, with no loss of lives, not even a ship's cat.

Sandy

[Pat Holscher]

It's been 30 years since I read Lawrence's book. All I can remember of it now is that I liked it. He certainly was an odd bird though. He was good friends with GB Shaw who was one of the friends you referred to that encouraged him to publish. I believe that Shaw and the Webbs were among the few that were presented with one of the few 'first editions' that Lawrence himself set and hand printed.

Sandy

By the way I loved the movie.

OT but I'm surprised that no one has made a movie yet on Count Luckner. It's a great story that wouldn't need much embellishment. He raided Allied shipping during WWI with great success in a sailing ship. And, according to Thomas, with no loss of lives, not even a ship's cat.

Sandy

I'm not aware of Count Luckner's story. A web search indicates it would be interesting.

[Pat Holscher]

We went (the family) and saw the current Indian Jones movie last night. Unlike the first film and third film, horses do not make an appearance. The film lives up to the earlier ones in my view, being, in my view, not as good as the first and third, but better than the second. Pretty good, all in all, and nicely handling the aging of the central characters.

Any, I thought I'd mention it here in this thread, as Spielberg and Lucas have inserted a lot of references to earlier Indiana Jones films in this movies. No doubt spotting them will be sort of a minor trivia endeavor with some folks, but, fwiw, I thought I'd note there was at least one reference to a Young Indiana Jones episode, that being to the ones in which he is in Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution. Nice how they tied them in, in a way.

Also, fwiw, history fans will be glad to know that we now know what Indiana Jones did during WWII.