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DELETED SCENCE
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Donovan's Men Kidnap Indy
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to Jeffrey Boam's script Indy was taken to Donovan's apartment
against his will. In this sequence Indy encounters Walter Donovan's
henchmen, they pull a gun on him and Indy agrees to follow them
because he doesn't want to endanger students with a fight on
campus. Some more footage of Indy's coerced trip to Donovan's
penthouse apartment is also shown. In the finished film the
scene was cut considerably and an artful cut between the men
approaching Indy and Indy standing in Donovan's apartment leads
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Flight to Venice
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| Originally
the film was to show more of Indy and Marcus on their flight
to Venice. While studying his father's diary, Indy finds a charcoal
rubbing of Donovan's grail tablet and sees the stained-glass
window sketch above Roman numerals. This foreshadows the discovery
of the secret passage in the Venice library and sets up Indy's
interest in making a rubbing of the knight's shield. What remains
of this footage was incorporated into the montage as the familiar
red line traces Indy's route across the globe. |
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The Library
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scene in the library was also cut a bit, some shots didn't make
it into the final cut. The scene was too long for Spielberg. |
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Smacking the Camel
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| As
Marcus and Sallah tried to run from the Nazis at the Iskenderun
train station, there was originally two additional shots, one
of Sallah slapping a camel and causing it to spit mucus all
over the Nazis nearby and another of Sallah fighting the Nazis. |
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Castle Brunwald
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When Indy and Elsa arrived at the Brunwald castle to free
Henry from the Nazis Indy presents himself as a Scottish lord
by imitating a Scottish accent. The suspicious butler who
opens the door acknowledges Indy’s skim and answers by
saying, "If you are a Scottish lord, then I am Jesse
Owens." The reference to the black Olympic runner who
defeated Nazi Germany at the Olympic games of 1936 was appropriate
for the time and place, but might have gone over the heads
of many viewers. Lucas and Spielberg changed the reference
to the '30s Hollywood starlet Mae West, but decided again
that modern movie audiences would miss the joke. So, they
settled on Mickey Mouse, something everyone young and old
can relate to, even though it wouldn’t be the first thing
to come to the mind of an elderly German butler from the '30s.
With his bluff called off Indy knocks the old butler unconscious,
takes him on his back and starts looking for a place to hide
the body while Elsa congratulates him for his accent. Finally,
they hide the butler in a sarcophagus that once closed its
lid features a face similar to the butler’s face. In
the finished film, we see Indy knocking off the butler and
from there we witness Indy and Elsa wandering in the castle
with no interest in the butler’s body.
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Berlin
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Originally, the sequence in which Indy recovers
the Grail diary and gets it signed by Hitler was
longer. Before the book burning rally started, Hitler
was seen marching with his lieutenants while a
woman was filming the scene. Although her name
was not mentioned the woman was assumed to be
Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler’s official biographer. In
spite of the fact that she was a Nazi sympathizer Spielberg
and Lucas had great
admiration for the woman who directed two wonderful documentaries,
The Triumph
of Will and the Festival of the Nations for the Olympic Games
of 1936 in Berlin.
Once Indy and Henry spot Elsa up at the high-ranking officials
infested platform,
viewers can see among them actor Ronald Lacey, who played
Toht in Raiders of
the Lost Ark, as another German official named Himmler.
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Leaving the Book Burning Rally
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little scene takes place after Hitler autographs the grail diary
in Berlin. Indy is stopped by a Nazi wearing a long black overcoat
who reprimands him for intruding on the procession. Much like
the scene in 'Raiders', Indy knocks the bossy superior officer
out cold and steals his clothing. This brief comedic scene explains
where Indy got the disguise he wears at the Berlin airport in
the following scene. Possibly it was cut to avoid repeating
the same joke too many times. |
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Berlin Airport
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| More
of Indy's unique brand of subterfuge was cut in the airport
sequence. As Indy and father prepare to buy a ticket, Indy spots
Vogel and other Nazis standing guard at the plane ticket lines.
He rushes Henry back through the crowd to hide him, then goes
to the only unguarded ticket line. This explains why they ended
up using as unorthodox means of travel as a zeppelin. It seems
like the scene where Indy tells dad he "got the first available
flight out of Germany" was filmed as an efficient substitute
for this longer cat-and-mouse sequence. |
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The Flying Ace
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| Here
we have a German World War I flying ace trying to impress fellow
zeppelin passengers with his spectacular war stories. This scene
would have probably cut back and forth between the flying ace
and the conversation between Indy and Dad over on the other
side of the passenger lounge. After Indy and Dad head down below
to the biplane, everyone in the passenger lounge is alerted
to the presence of "spies" onboard. The drunken flying ace jumps
up to help in catching these spies, and with several others
he heads down below to find that Indy and Dad have already left
in the biplane. |
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for Indy's pursuers there is another plane attached to the bottom
of the zeppelin. Without thinking, the flying ace hurriedly
jumps into the plane's cockpit along with a young pilot that
tagged along. In his drunken state, the flying ace forgets to
start the plane's engine before detaching it from the zeppelin,
therefore causing the plane to plummet to the ground. This scene
also features the appearance of Indy veteran Pat Roach as the
black dressed Gestapo agent who follows the Flying Ace to death. |
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Iskenderun Train Station
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is a brief scene showing Indy and Henry getting off the train
at Iskenderun to meeting Sallah. It would have answered the
question of how they got to Iskenderun and meet with Sallah.
Again, this is a simple transitional scene without a great deal
of importance to the storyline. |
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Kazim's Death
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| Kevork
Malikyan spent hours with Spielberg staging his death. He was
to collapse into Alison Doody's arms and slide down her body.
After grabbing him, she pulls her hands back to find them covered
with blood. The shot never managed to achieve the impact Spielberg
wanted and he finally dropped it. The scene was actually a recreation
of David Gelin's from Hitchock's remake of 'The Man Who Knew
Too Much'. |
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The Canyon of the Crescent Moon
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little scene explained how Indy and company track the Nazis
to the Canyon of the Crescent Moon so quickly. After surviving
the tank battle, they witness an explosion in the distance.
The Nazis are blasting a wider entrance through the canyon.
This scene was part of a larger cut story element, about the
Grail Temple being hidden past a narrow chasm. This also explained
how it could go undiscovered for so long. Since Henry has a
copy of the map to the canyon in his diary, this transitional
scene was considered unnecessary. |
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The Word of God
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second challenge in the Grail Temple was first planned to have
tarantulas hidden under each wrong letter. Indy is shown being
menaced by a tarantula crawling up his body, after stepping
on the "J." While in post-production Spielberg decided the scene
didn't had the impact he was looking for and he came up with
the chasm under the stone tablets. |
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