Michael Rogers Recommends The Complete Making of Indiana Jones

Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 12/12/2008 9:01:00 AM

Recommendation: J.W. Rinzler’s The Complete Making of Indiana Jones for giving Indy heads the solid behind-the-scenes book we’ve waited 25 years for. Of course, it was created to cash in—as Uncle George does better than anyone living or dead—on the release of IJ and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but who cares, we finally got it!

Ideal recipient: Star Wars and Indy heads (they’re mostly interchangeable) are the obvious audience, but beyond those geeks, any Spielberg aficionado or budding filmmaker would be interested.

Nonbook Tie-in: The two-disc special edition of Crystal Skull on DVD, or if you seriously want to rock some Indy, go for broke with IJ: The Complete Adventure Collection boxed set of all four flix. 

And while we’re talking adventure films, the grand daddy of them all is George Stevens’s 1939 Gunga Din starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Doug Fairbanks Jr. It’s two hours of pure fun. Grab it on DVD.