Indiana Jones in a POW camp with Charles de Gaulle? History class just got explosive.
As a young soldier in the Belgian Army, Indy learns firsthand the savagery of warfare while participating in the Battle of the Somme. Almost succumbing to despair as his life becomes an endless round of artillery barrages, nerve gas attacks and decaying corpses, Indy fears that death will be his only way out. Then he is captured by the Germans and confined to a POW camp where he and fellow prisoner Charles de Gaulle hatch a daring scheme to win their freedom in true "Great Escape" style.
Production
They built actual trenches. The mud is REAL mud.
Writing
De Gaulle as a sassy POW cellmate is unhinged genius.
Director
Simon Wincer
Sean Patrick Flanery
Indiana Jones
Ronny Coutteure
Remy Baudouin
Jason Flemyng
Emile
Richard Ridings
André
Simon Hepworth
Tutu
Jonny Phillips
Jacques
Yves Beneyton
Benet
Hervé Pauchon
Charles de Gaulle
Stevan Rimkus
Sassoon
Jamie Glover
Graves
Miles Anderson
Giscard
Edward Petherbridge
Bilideau
Steve Nicolson
British Sergeant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was edited from two Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episodes that originally flopped so hard ABC burned them off in random order.
The real Charles de Gaulle WAS captured at Verdun and did attempt multiple escapes — so this bonkers crossover is somehow historically grounded.
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