35mm INDY THE TEMPLE OF DOOM Father's Day @ the Million Dollar Theater

Part of our Let’s Go Back to the Movies series

Sunday, June 21, 2026, Million Dollar Theater

LOCATION: The Million Dollar Theater, 307 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013

2p INDIANA JONES & THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984, dir by Steven Spielberg, w/ Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Paramount, 118mns, USA, 35mm pending availability)

You can get tickets to any individual movie or get the INDY FATHER'S DAY All-Day pass (11a RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 2p INDIANA JONES & THE TEMPLE OF DOOM 5p INDIANA JONES & THE LAST CRUSADE, best deal).

Please note that while we plan to screen these movies on 35mm prints, if we have any issues with the prints, we will have DCP/digital back ups. The show must go on!

2p INDIANA JONES & THE TEMPLE OF DOOM Spielberg famously agreed to make two sequels if the first Indiana Jones did well. And boy, did it do well. So three years later, hot off of E.T.., Spielberg, Lucas, Ford and company returned for, of all things, a prequel sequel.

To avoid using Nazis again as the bad guys, we travel back a few years to 1934 to find Indiana Jones in China. When an artifact trade goes wrong in wild fashion, Indy, American singer Willie Scott (Capshaw), and Indy's adopted sidekick Short Round (Academy Award winner Ke Huy Quan in his 1st movie role) find themselves forced together on an adventure in India (just see the movie, the opening sequence is one of the best in the entire series).

It turns out a local Thuggee cult has stolen sacred Shankara stones and the children of neighboring villages. So Indy and team travel to Pankot Palace where they discover very sinister things going on deep in the caverns below.

Temple of Doom was so intense and dark, it created the need for the PG-13 rating which still attends most summer blockbusters to this day. The movie also has some of Spielberg's very best action sequences including a mine cart and rickety bridge chase that employs every special effect trick in the book.

Inspired by George Stevens' 1930's adventure classic Gunga Din, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom shocked audiences with its crazy action sequences in 1984. It is now often considered the hidden gem/classic of the entire series.

Today, we screen the first three Indiana Jones movies. On 35mm prints. You can get tickets to any individual movie or get the INDY FATHER'S DAY All-Day pass (all movies, best deal). Go to next door's historic Grand Central Market for breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks as we take in what an art form can do and inspire.

Secret Movie Club started 10 years ago in 2016 with a 35mm screening of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. We're going back to the movies to watch a trilogy that still stands as the platinum standard for action adventure with heart.

Do you want to learn how to direct? Do you want to take your Dad to something he'll actually enjoy?

Grab your whip, put on your fedora. This is going to be a wild ride in a movie palace.

Today, we screen the first three Indiana Jones movies. On 35mm prints. You can get tickets to any individual movie or get the INDY FATHER'S DAY All-Day pass (all movies, best deal). Go to next door's historic Grand Central Market for breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks as we take in what an art form can do and inspire.

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