Sneak Peeks

After Indy Jones turned off many critics with his last sequel--it got damned for its violence and lack of charm--the intrepid anthropologist may be rebounding: According to exhibitor sources, “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade� is hot .

Screened recently for exhibitors across the country, Paramount’s big summer entry--due May 24-- got thumbs up from our sources for its “wall-to-wall action� and for being “nearly as good as the first.�

And, said one exhibitor, “Everyone’s raving about Sean Connery (as Indy’s dad). He really steals this one.�

The plot has Indy (Harrison Ford) and his dad, Prof. Henry Jones (Connery), in search of the Holy Grail. Ditto some nasty Nazis. Indy, disguised as one, winds up face-to-face with Der Fuhrer himself. Chases abound, one involving a Zeppelin. There’s romantic intrigue involving Indy, his beautiful blond girlfriend (Allison Doody) and another prominent character we wouldn’t dare reveal. Also, an encounter with rats--lots of ‘em--in the sewers of Venice. And flashbacks with River Phoenix as a young Indy explain Indy’s revulsion for snakes.