CENSORSHIP, a conversation – Part 5: “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984)

This is the fifth part of an eight-part series about American movie ratings. 

Part 1 focused on Prano Baily-Bond’s “Censor”. Part 2 focused on Mike Nichols’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”. Part 3 focused on Brian DePalma’s “Greetings”. Part 4 focused on Gordon Flemyng’s “The Split”.

Future episodes will focus on Garry Marshall’s “The Flamingo Kid” (1984), John McNaughton’s “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” (1986), and Philip Kaufmans’s “Henry & June” (1990).

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Referenced media:

• “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
• “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (Steven Spielberg, 1989)
• “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (Steven Spielberg, 2008)
• “The Most Dangerous Game” (Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1932)
• “Thor” (Kenneth Branagh, 2011)
• “The Goonies” (Richard Donner, 1985)
• “Head of the Class” (Michael Elias and Richard Eustis, 1986-1991)
• “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (Danial Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2022)
• “Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi” (Robert Guenette, 1983)
• “The Making of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Frank Marshall, 1984)
• “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
• “Splash” (Ron Howard, 1984)
• “Clash of the Titans” (Desmond Davis, 1981)
• “Entertainment Tonight” (Al Masini, 1981-now)
• “Police Academy” (Hugh Wilson, 1984)
• “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes” (Hugh Hudson, 1984)
• “Romancing the Stone” (Robert Zemeckis, 1984)
• “The Bounty” (Roger Donaldson, 1984)
• “Mutiny on the Bounty” (Frank Lloyd, 1935)
• “Sixteen Candles” (John Hughes, 1984)
• “Ghostbusters” (Ivan Reitman, 1984)
• “Gremlins” (Joe Dante, 1984)
• “The Karate Kid” (John G. Avildsen, 1984)
• “Conan the Destroyer” (Richard Fleischer, 1984)
• “The Last Starfighter” (Nick Castle, 1984)
• “Purple Rain” (Albert Magnoli, 1984)
• “Red Dawn” (John Milius, 1984)
• “A Passage to India” (David Lean, 1984)