As we open into teen Indy's classroom at 42:41 on the DVD, the
teacher has written the name Edith Wharton on the blackboard.
Wharton (1862-1937) was an American writer who would go on to be
the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature in 1921
for the novel The Age of Innocence. Indy will meet her
in 1917 in "Tales of Innocence".
Indy's girlfriend Nancy Stratemeyer makes a cameo at the
beginning of this episode. She previously appeared in
"Race to Danger".
Indy tells Nancy his father is taking him to
Albuquerque to
visit his aunt for spring break. Since Indy says "aunt", that
would tend to imply that she is the blood relative of the
Joneses, not her
husband, Indy's Uncle Fred (plus, when they meet up, Fred is
heard at breakfast to refer to Henry, Sr. as "Professor"). That,
in turn, would imply that his aunt and cousin Frank are not
named Jones. But the letter sent by Nancy to Indy that appears
in the
The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones shows her as
having addressed it care of Frank Jones! So, are these
Albuquerque relatives Joneses or not?
At 43:31 on the DVD, Indy is reading a copy of the
New York Times
with the headline "SLAUGHTER AT VERDUN!" It has a date of
February-something on it, 1916. I've been unable to confirm if
this was an actual Times headline.
Verdun is a city
in France.
Indy sends a letter to Ned, congratulating him on being posted
to Cairo.
"Ned" was a nickname used by family and friends of T.E.
Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), whom Indy befriended in Egypt in
1908 in "My First Adventure".
This is when the two explored the tomb of Kha mentioned in the
letter.
At 44:47 on the DVD, the film
has been flipped, as evidenced by the flipped "730" on the train
engine.
At 44:57 on the DVD, we see a couple
pages from Indy's journal that do not appear in the published
The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones.
Indy's Albuquerque relatives meet him and his father at the
train stop at Rancho Bajada del Monte. This appears to be a
fictitious location.
At 45:39 on the DVD, Frank shows Indy an advertisement for a
bordello he's clipped out of a Mexican newspaper. The Spanish
text on it reads, "SENORITAS! SENORITAS! SENORITAS! GUAPAS
LINDAS! MUY AMABLE! NUNCA VISTA ANTES; ENTRADA SOLAMENTE UN
DOLAR!" Translated to English this is, "LADIES! LADIES! LADIES!
PRETTY PRETTY! VERY NICE! NEVER SEEN BEFORE; ENTRY ONLY ONE
DOLLAR!"
In the early scenes of Indy and Frank's trek to
Columbus, New Mexico, just north of the U.S. border with
Mexico, Indy is wearing a hat that bears only a slight
resemblance to his usual fedora. Once arriving in the town, he
is seen with the more usual fedora. The "fake fedora" is seen
repeatedly in new insterstitial scenes of the episodes that were
filmed for the making of the Adventures of Young Indiana
Jones compilation TV movies...I guess the production didn't
want to spend the money again for a real fedora!
The town of Columbus was filmed at
Fort
Bravo/Texas Hollywood Studios in Almeria, Spain. The later
scenes of Ciudad Guerrero were also shot here.
The small truck that gives Indy and Frank a ride at 47:24 on the
DVD is a
Ford
Model TT. The truck that passes the two by later
at 49:41 also appears to be a
Ford Model TT. A third Model TT truck missing the cab roof picks
them up the next morning.
At 50:49 on the DVD, Frank and Indy ogle a photo of Mata Hari
found in a magazine.
Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod
(1876-1917), a Dutch exotic dancer in Paris who was later
executed by French authorities, having been found guilty of
being a spy for Germany during the Great War, though much doubt
remains today of her guilt. The photo seen in the magazine is an
historical one taken by the professional photographer Walery
(Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg, 1863-1929) in 1906. Indy will
meet her in 1917 in "The Mata Hari Affair".
The travelling map shown as Frank and Indy make their way to
Columbus depicts their journey starting from Santa Fe, not Albuquerque
(left over from the original airing)! Note also that Santa
Fe is depicted on the map as northwest of Albuquerque, when
it is actually northeast! |
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As Indy and Frank enter Columbus on the back of the Model TT, a
business called Golden Nugget is seen (presumably not a casino
since the first
Golden Nugget casino opened in Las Vegas in 1946).
When Frank asks the soldier in Columbus where
they can get something to eat, the soldier points out the Busy
Bee coffee shop. As far as I can tell, this is a fictitious
business.
For "hot spots" (bordellos) across the border, the
soldier mentions the Copa Caliente and the Cuero de Oro before
"not recommending" Maxie's. Presumably, these would be in
Palomas,
the Mexican town that shares the border with Columbus. As far as
I can tell, these bordellos are fictitious establishments. Copa
caliente is Spanish for "hot cup" and cuero de oro
for "gold leather".
Indy and Frank have arrived in Columbus just in time for the
historical raid on the town by the forces of Pancho Villa on
March 9, 1916.
Pancho Villa (1878-1923) is a national hero in Mexico and
an instigator of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 alongside
Emiliano Zapata, Porfirio Diaz, and Pascual Orozco.
Pancho Villa's men rob the Columbus State Bank. This was an
actual bank in Columbus at the time. I've not been able to
confirm whether it was robbed during the raid.
At 53:02 on the DVD, The People's Photo Studio is seen in
Columbus. This appears to be a fictitious business.
When Indy grabs a horse and rides off to retrieve the dresses
stolen from a young woman by one of the banditos, Frank shouts
after him, "Indy, what am I gonna tell your dad?" This makes it
sound like he knows Indy's not coming back any time soon, but
there's no reason for him think that at the moment.
The Mexican prisoner who is to be executed alongside Indy and
another man by Villa's men begs in Spanish not to be killed,
translated in subtitles, but then adds more that is not
translated in the subtitles. He adds, "I have children!"
Captain Julio Cardenas, one of Villa's officers and
second-in-command, was an historical figure.
The pistol Remy carries is a
Webley Mk
VI.
U.S.
General John J. Pershing here leads a force across the border in
pursuit of Villa's forces after the raid of Columbus. Pershing
(1860-1948) was the General of the Armies of the United States
at the time and led the Mexican Punitive Expedition from March
1916 to February 1917, though the initial pursuit after the
Columbus raid was led by Major Frank Tompkins, not Pershing as
depicted here.
General Pershing postulates that Villa will steer clear of
Ciudad Guerrero because President Carranza has a whole army
there.
Ciudad Guerrero is an actual small city in Mexico. Venustiano
Carranza (1859-1920) was president of Mexico, at first as part
of a so-called pre-constitutional government beginning in 1915,
and then ratified in 1917. Carranza was a former ally of Villa.
When Demetrios says "Imshi!" to Indy and another man unloading
dynamite at the Villa camp, Indy tells the other man it is
Arabic for "quickly". But imshi actually means "walk
away". It doesn't make sense for Demetrios to say that in this
circumstance.
Remy says he was a sailor before this, but he hated the sea so
he jumped ship at
Veracruz.
As Indy tries to compose a letter to his father telling him he
has joined Pancho Villa's Mexican revolutionaries, he pens the
line, "...as Robbie Burns so aptly said and as you so often
quote him, 'the best laid scheme of mice and men.'" Robbie Burns
(1759-1796) was a Scottish poet whose "To a Mouse" (1785)
includes that now-famous line.
The U.S. soldier who enters the cantina and shoots down Cardenas
and two other of Villa's men is Lt. George S. Patton, who would
go on to become an important U.S. general in WWII. Cardenas was
killed in a firefight with Patton and his men on May 14, 1916,
two months after the events of this episode and not killed by
Patton himself. He did strap the men to his vehicle just as
shown here though. The vehicle he drives here is a 1925
Citroën 10
HP Cabriolet.
At the cantina, Patton is served with a bottle of Hacienda
Domingo tequila. This appears to be a fictitious brand.
Patton here carries a pair of
Colt Single
Action Army pistols. Indy is later given the same pistol by
José for the raid on Guerrero.
At 1:11:43 on the DVD, the train that has been hijacked by
Villa's men is N de M engine 1150. N de M was a shorthand
moniker of Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México, the state-owned
railroad company from 1903-2001. Engine 1150 is on display at
the
National Museum of Mexican Railroads in Puebla, Mexico. The
footage of the engine seen here was borrowed from the 1989 film
Old Gringo.
Villa and his men actually did attack
Ciudad Guerrero on March 29, 1916, simultaneously with attacks
on San Ysidro and Minaca, all within close proximity of each
other in the
Mexican state of Chihuahua. However, the attack on Guerrero did
not involve a train flatcar loaded with explosives.
At 1:13:48 on the DVD, buildings with signs of "Banco" and
"Comisaria" are seen in Ciudad Guerrero. These are Spanish for
"Bank" and "Commissary" respectively.
Many of the revolutionaries are seen to be armed with
Winchester Model 1892 rifles.
Pancho Villa is seen to carry a
Remington
Model 1858 Army pistol.
The car seen in Guerrero at 1:17:32 on the DVD is a 1923
Ford Model T.
At 1:18:05 on the DVD, a Mexican Army soldier pulls a Colt
M1911A1 pistol on Indy.
At 1:18:18 on the DVD, Indy is seemingly mistakenly seen armed
with a Webley Mk VI pistol instead of the Colt Single Action
Army that was given to him earlier.
After being turned back from Guerrero by Pershing's forces,
Villa rants that he hates the Americans and Woodrow Wilson.
Wilson (1856-1924) was the U.S. President at the time. He
ordered Pershing to cross the boarder and capture Villa after
the raid on Columbus, New Mexico.
To hurt the Americans, Villa orders a hit on
the hacienda of William Randolph Hearst. Hearst (1863-1951) was
a wealthy American newspaper publisher. He owned a hacienda
called Babicora in the Mexican state of Chihuahua and Villa's
rebels did raid and hold onto it for a couple of years during
the revolution.
Villa is warned by one of his men that raiding the
hacienda of a powerful American like Hearst will lead to war
with the United States and Villa responds that Carranza will be
caught in the middle. It is true that Villa believed that his
antagonizing raids on U.S. properties would lead to Carranza
being weakened through his ties to the U.S. and to Mexican
loyalists, though it was not specifically tied to the raid on
the Hearst hacienda.
At 1:24:06 on the DVD, the projector operator at the hacienda is
loading a Simplex projector. This was a real world brand of
projectors.
At the hacienda, Indy sees a portrait photo of a beautiful woman
(presumably a relation or acquaintance of Hearst) on a table and
takes it out of its frame to keep it for himself. Why he does
this is unexplained.
The old man who loses his chickens to the revolutionaries says
that when he was young he rode with Juarez against the forces of
Emperor Maximilian, and then mentions
when Porfirio became president, followed by Huerta...all of whom
stole his chickens in turn. Emperor Maximilian (1832-1867) of
Mexico was an Austrian archduke who ruled Mexico from 1864-1867
after being installed by French forces and was opposed by the
forces of Benito Juarez (1806-1872), who was considered to still
be the legitimate president of the country from 1858-1872.
Porfirio Diaz (1830-1915) was president after Diaz. Victoriano
Huerta became president for a little over a year after a coup
against the elected president Francisco I. Madero (in the comic book adaptation, the old man also mentions
Madero, who was president of
Mexico from 1911-1913).
At 1:28:24 on the DVD, Indy looks at the sketch of the Jackal
ornament Lawrence originally drew in
"My First Adventure".
When Indy asks Remy to let him go with him back to Belgium, Remy
remarks, "Tu est fou, mon ami." This is French for "You
are crazy, my friend."
Sneaking into Demetrios' home, Indy discovers a cabinet full of
pilfered relics from various parts of the world. On the top
shelf, there appear to several Hindu artifacts and an Egyptian
sphinx statue, among other items. He then finds the jackal
ornament.
After finding a bullwhip in Demetrios' home, notice that Indy
seems to be recalling the moment he accidentally whipped himself
on the chin the first time he tried to use a whip back in
"The Cross of Coronado",
as he seems to touch the scar left by it on his chin.
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Notes from the comic
book adaptation of this episode
The Young Indiana Jones
Chronicles #2
Dark Horse Comics
Script and artwork by Dan Barry
Letters by Gail Beckett
Colors by Gregory Wright
March 1992
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Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue, not in
the televised episode
Pierre
Duclos
Didja Notice?
In the adaptation, the soldier in Columbus names only two "hot
spots" for Indy and Frank, the Casa Caliente and Chillies. In
the televised episode, it was three, with different names: Copa
Caliente, Cuero de Oro, and Maxie's. Casa caliente is
Spanish for "hot house".
As Villa's men flee the bank and the town of Columbus on
page 4, one man shouts "Vamanos, muchachos!" and others
yell "Viva Villa! Viva Mexico!!" These are Spanish for
"Let's go, boys!" and "Long live Villa! Long live Mexico!!"
On page 7, Remy says to Indy, "Tu as de la chance, mon
vieux!" This is French for "You are lucky, my friend!"
On page 9, Remy says "Et voilá!" This is French for
"And there you go!"
On page 11, the Old Indy narration states that he recognized the
photo of Claw because he was there when Pierre took it in Egypt.
This would have occurred during the events of
"My First Adventure",
though we don't see that moment in the episode.
On page 20, one of Villa's pistoleros, sobbing at the romantic
adventure movie they are watching in the hacienda's screening
room, says, "pobrecita..." This is Spanish for "poor
dear".
In the televised episode, Indy tells Remy the war in Europe is
important, "...it must be won! The alternative is
unthinkable." In the comic, those words are in an old
letter from Lawrence that Indy is re-reading, then he repeats
them to Remy!
Memorable Dialog
who's telling this story?.mp3
so much going on in the world.mp3
someday I'm going to be an archaeologist.mp3
hot spots.mp3
what am I gonna tell your dad?.mp3
that low down greaser Pancho Villa.mp3
it belongs in a museum.mp3
the war to end all wars.mp3
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