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Indiana Jones
"Mask of Evil"
(49:09-end on the Masks of
Evil DVD)
Written by Jonathan Hensleigh
Directed by Dick Maas
Bookends directed by Carl
Schultz
Original air date: February 7,
1995
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Indy versus Vlad the Impaler.
Read the "October 1918" entry of the
It’s Not the Years, It’s the Mileage Indiana Jones
chronology for a summary of this episode
Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology
This episode takes place in January 1918.
Didja Know?
The title
"Mask of Evil" for this episode
has been assigned by PopApostle based on the title of the
TV movie repackaged for the Family Channel from the two episodes
of the Young
Indiana Chronicles,
"Istanbul, September 1918" (covered by PopApostle as "The
Wolves") and "Transylvania, January 1918".
Notes from the Old Indy bookends of
The
Young Indiana Chronicles
The Old Indy bookends for this episode take place on
Staten
Island on Halloween of 1993.
The three trick-or-treaters are dressed as Dracula, a werewolf,
and a pumpkin. Dracula, of course, is the classic vampiric
character from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel.
The three trick-or-treaters are worried that knocking at Indy's
door will yield another one of his long stories.
Notes from
The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones is a 2008 publication
that
purports to be Indy's journal as seen throughout The
Young Indiana Chronicles
and the big screen Indiana
Jones movies. The publication is also annotated with notes
from a functionary of the
Federal Security
Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation, the successor
agency of the Soviet Union's KGB. The FSB relieved Indy of his
journal in 1957 during the events of Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The notations imply the journal was released to other
governments by the FSB in the early 21st Century. However, some
bookend segments of The
Young Indiana Chronicles
depict Old Indy still in
possession of the journal in 1992. The discrepancy has never
been resolved.
The events of this episode are not covered in the journal. The
pages jump from August 1916 ("Trenches
of Hell") to November 1918 and the end of the war (The
Treasure of the Peacock’s Eye).
The boxed set of DVDs of the complete
The
Young Indiana Chronicles
TV series has notations and drawings in the storage slot for
each disk that suggest they are meant to be excerpts from Indy's
journal. Most of these notes and drawings do not appear in the
The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones book. Here is the
slot image for this
episode:
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
trick-or-treaters
Indiana Jones
Vasily
gondolier
tarot reader
Venice police
Colonel Waters' assistant
Colonel Waters (dies in this episode)
Carlo Paretti
Henry Stanfill
General Mattias Targo
(dies in this episode)
Francois Picard
(dies in this episode)
Evan
Thompson
(dies in this episode)
Frederick
McCall
(dies in this episode)
Dr. Franz Heinzer/Adolf Schmidt
(dies in this episode)
Nicholas Hunyadi
(dies in this episode)
Maria Straussler
French officer
British officer
American officer
Didja Notice?
The story opens in
Venice,
Italy, where Indy has been transferred to American
Intelligence.
At 50:28 on the DVD, the tower seen between the buildings in
Venice is the Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli di Cristo
(Church of the Holy Apostles of Christ) in Venice.
At 50:35 on the DVD, the bridge under which Indy's gondola is
passing is the Calle de la Pieta and the
campanile of San
Giorgio Maggiore Church is seen on the horizon. At 50:39, a
flipped shot of the Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore is seen
from the vantage point of St. Mark's Square.
When Indy's gondola pulls into the dock, the Church of St. Mary
of Health is seen in the background, in another flipped shot.
At 50:58 on the DVD, the Doge's Palace in St. Mark's Square is
seen (also seen as part of the interior courtyard of the
building housing American Intelligence). Seconds later, Indy is
seen walking towards
St.
Mark's Basilica.
At 52:33 on the DVD, the San Geremia church is seen on the left
in another flipped shot. The building on the right is the
Palazzo Labia, representing the headquarters of American
Intelligence in Venice; notice the U.S. flag and the flag of the
municipality of Venice (at the time of WWI) are flying from a
small balcony.
When Indy first checks in with Colonel Waters at American
Intelligence, the colonel remarks, "Barcelona, Vienna,
Petrograd. You get around, Defense." He is referring to Indy's
adventures as seen in
"Espionage Escapades", "The
Secret Peace", and "Revolution!".
Indy tells Colonel Waters that he speaks 27 languages.
During Indy's and Waters' briefing by Stanfill and Paretti,
a map of Italy can be seen behind Waters at 56:18 on the DVD.
Stanfill tells Indy and Waters that they will meet their contact
for the mission at the village of Istrita. This is an actual village
in Romania.
The shot at 59:14 on the DVD is across the waters from the House
of Mocenigo in Venice.
The small blue car Waters and Indy drive to their rendezvous in
Romania is a 1913
Peugeot
Bébé 6CV. The truck they drive from the rendezvous point may be
a custom job for the production.
The burning vehicle Waters and Indy pass at 1:00:46 on the DVD
appears to be a 1927 Morris Cowley.
Waters and Indy check in at an inn with a sign in front reading
Gasthaus, German for "inn".
At the inn,
Dr. Heinzer is reading
Wiener
Zeitung.
Wiener Zeilung
is German for "Vienna Newspaper." It is a real world newspaper
in Austria, published since 1703.
The truck Indy, Waters, Heinzer, Hunyadi, and Straussler take to
the Transylvanian border is a 1925
Praga
AN.
The distant shot of Targo's castle is a matte painting. The
close-up exterior shots are of
Bouzov
Castle in the Czech Republic.
When Indy insists to the team that they will save time scaling
the castle wall with a rope and grapple rather than search for
an open door, he remarks to them, "Don't worry, I've done this
before." Indy used a similar technique in
The Pirates' Loot.
Inside the castle grounds, the team discovers a number of
Targo's enemies dead, impaled on pikes. Targo is using the same
methods as the historical
Vlad Tepes (real name Vlad Dracula, tepes means impaler
in Romanian, for the way he often killed his enemies) was a
ruler of Wallachia (later Romania) in the 15th century.
Dr. Heinzer speculates that Colonel Waters was killed by
spontaneous human combustion (though he does not use that term).
During their exploration of the castle, Indy and Nicholas appear
to be armed with
Mauser
C96 pistols.
After Targo falls to his seeming death from a parapet of the
castle, Maria tells Indy that to ensure he remains dead, they
must move his body to "where the four roads meet" and they'll
need a wooden stake and a hammer. These were part of the
strigoi (or vampire) lore of Romanian myths.
By the end of the episode, it actually seems as if Targo did
have
supernatural powers and a cadre of undead victims who all died
once he was destroyed. Of course, if one accepts the original
Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode ("Transylvania,
January 1918") with the Old Indy bookends, it could be argued
that Old Indy exaggerated the story highly to scare the young
trick-or-treaters.
Memorable Dialog
if he starts telling one of his stories.mp3
a
living dead man.mp3
it would be my duty.mp3
I can handle myself.mp3
something very strange going on here.mp3
evil
laughter.mp3
you
are American.mp3
a wooden stake and a hammer.mp3
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