Ben Gates (played by Nicholas Cage) goes on another treasure hunt, this time for a Native American gold city that turns out to be hidden under Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota. In the second National Treasure film, again in the Indiana Jones mode, John Turtelraub directs an adventure film that may delight filmviewers of all ages, in which the clues start with eighteen pages missing from assassin John Wilkes Booth's diary and end up in a map pieced together from pages hidden in desks at Buckingham Palace and the Oval Office. A special heroine is Professor Emily Appleton (played by Helen Mirren), who helps to decipher a code written in a defunct Native American language. With the first National Treasure in 2004, we expect a third in 2010, hopefully with more historical content. MH
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