Indiana Jones - and a great man

The BBC is broadcasting all three Indiana Jones films in successive evenings, and it has given me an opportunity to take a good long look at the series. So far, for one reason or another, I have never managed to see the whole of the first movie, and, of the others, only the one featuring Sean Connery (one of those actors I will make an effort to watch).

Well, my view is still negative. ( Read more... )

However, this LJ is turning out to be too much about the things I hate and not enough about the things I love. So I enclose my account, written a few years ago, of the great historian who has led me to the work of my life.( Read more... )