Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
| Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure | |
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The film's tagline:
"You'll live the adventure... You'll love its heroes." |
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| Also known as | The Ewok Adventure |
| Genre |
Adventure Family Fantasy Science Fiction |
| Written by |
George Lucas (story) Bob Carrau |
| Directed by | John Korty |
| Starring |
Eric Walker Warwick Davis Fionnula Flanagan Guy Boyd Aubree Miller |
| Narrated by | Burl Ives |
| Theme music composer | Peter Bernstein |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | George Lucas |
| Producer(s) | Thomas G. Smith Patricia Rose Duignan (associate producer) |
| Cinematography | John Korty |
| Editor(s) | John Nutt |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Production company(s) |
Lucasfilm Korty Films |
| Distributor | ABC |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
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Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (originally broadcast as The Ewok Adventure) is a 1984 American made-for-TV film based in the Star Wars universe. It was released theatrically in Europe under its current title. The film focuses on the struggles of a brother and sister, stranded on Endor, in locating their parents, who have been kidnapped by a monster known as the Gorax. The film is set sometime between the fifth and sixth episodes of the Star Wars saga. It is the first of two spin-off films featuring the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi.
The film is set in a timeframe approximate to the Ewoks animated series occurring sometime after the events of Episode IV: A New Hope but before the events of Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. As the film opens, the Towani family's starcruiser has crashed on the forest moon of Endor, and the Towani parents, Jeremitt and Catarine cannot locate their children, Mace and Cindel.
On the forest moon of Endor three years after the Battle of Yavin, the Towani family starcruiser lies wrecked. The Towani family (Catarine, Jeremitt, Mace, and Cindel) are stranded. When Catarine and Jeremitt vanish (having been captured by the Gorax), the children are found by the Ewok Deej. After Mace tries to kill them, the Ewoks subdue him and take both children to the Ewoks’ home. There, Cindel and Wicket become friends. Shortly thereafter, the Ewoks kill a beast only to find a life-monitor from one of the Towani parents with the creature.
They seek out the Ewok Logray who informs them that the parents have been taken by the monstrous Gorax, which resides in a deserted, dangerous area. A caravan of Ewoks is formed to help the children find their parents. They meet up with a wistie named Izrina and a boisterous Ewok named Chukha-Trok before finally reaching the lair of the Gorax. They engage the Gorax in battle, freeing Jeremitt and Catarine, but Chukha-Trok is killed. The Gorax is thought destroyed when it is knocked into a chasm, but it takes a final blow from Mace (using Chukha-Trok’s axe) to kill the creature, which tries to climb back up after them. Thus reunited, the Towanis decide to stay with the Ewoks until they can repair the starcruiser, and Izrina leaves to go back to her family.
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