Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984) | Star Wars Spin Off | Movie Review

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The Ewok Adventure is a 1984 American television spin-off film based in the Star Wars universe. It takes place on the moon of Endor, and features the Ewoks, who help two young human siblings as they try to locate their parents.

The film was given a limited international theatrical run, for which it was retitled Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure. It was followed by a sequel, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, in 1985.


According to Wikipedia: On the forest moon of Endor, 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 boar wolf 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.

Warwick Davis as Wicket W. Warrick
Aubree Miller as Cindel Towani
Eric Walker as Mace Towani
Fionnula Flanagan as Catarine Towani
Guy Boyd as Jeremitt Towani
Daniel Frishman as Deej
Debbie Lee Carrington as Weechee
Tony Cox as Widdle
Kevin Thompson as Chukha-Trok
Margarita Fernández as Kaink
Pam Grizz as Shodu
Bobby Bell as Logray
Burl Ives as Narrator (voice)
Darryl Henriques as Wicket (voice) (as Daryl Henriquez)
Sydney Walker as Deej (voice)

The Ewok Adventure was one of four films to be juried-awarded Emmys for Outstanding Special Visual Effects at the 37th Primetime Emmy Awards. The film was additionally nominated for Outstanding Children's Program but lost in this category to an episode of American Playhouse.

0:00 Intro
0:45 Breakdown Begins
1:43 They Got Burl Ives!
5:50 The Adventure Begins
8:00 Entering the Gorax Layer
10:33 Review
11:51 Outro

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