The year
is 1935. After a wild escape from
Shanghai's Club Obi-Wan and a spectacular
plane crash, Indiana Jones and his
new companions, night
club singer Willie Scott and his trusty
11-year-old sidekick Short Round,
end up in a cursed Indian village
where the people believe evil spirits
have taken their children away after
a sacred Shankara stone was stolen.
They beg Indy to help the suffering
villagers and find their lost children.
Indiana Jones finally
agrees and together with Short Round
and a very unhappy Willie he travels
to Pankot Palace by elephant. Once
there they meet the child maharajah
during a bizarre banquet.
Afterwards Indy, Willie and Short
Round head to their sleeping quarters
where Indy gets attacked by an assassin
and discovers a hidden passage leading
deep into the underground heart of
the Palace.
After surviving a deadly
booby-trap the trio make their way
down the deadly passage and find themselves
deep within an underground "Temple
of Doom" ruled by the evil Mola
Ram, High Priest of a supposed extinct
and horrifying cult called the Thuggees.
Mola Ram and his vicious
followers are in the possession of
three of the Shankara stones. The
Thuggees plan to take over the world
with the power of these stones as,
according to legend, the Shankara
stones can grant preternatural powers
on its possessor.
Indy, Short Round and
Willie can escape and they free all
the children from the Indian village
out of the clutches of Mola Ram and
his Thuggees.
Cornered by the Thuggees, Indy and
his two companions are forced to escape
the temple in a mine card which leads
to a literal roller coaster ride through
the mines, climaxing on a long rope
bridge suspended high over a river
infested by hungry crocodiles. Indy
ends up in the middle of the rope
bridge blocked on both ends by approaching
Thuggees...
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