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TRIVIA
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Begins
with a shot of a rock in Utah which is reminiscent of the Paramount
Pictures logo. See also Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana
Jones and the Temple of Doom. |
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Director
Steven Spielberg included the opening scenes as a tribute to
his own experiences as a Boy Scout. |
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River
Phoenix, who plays Harrison Ford's younger self in this film,
played his son in The Mosquito Coast.When describing how he
prepared for playing the role of young Indiana Jones, he explained
that he didn't really base his portrayal on the Indiana Jones
character. Instead, he decided to do his rendition of actor
Harrison Ford. So he observed Ford out of character before acting
his part. |
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Shows
the origin of Indiana Jones' fear of snakes in Raiders of the
Lost Ark. |
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Harrison
Ford cut his chin in a car accident in Northern California when
he was about 20. In the movie, this cut is explained by young
Indiana Jones cutting his chin with a whip. |
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The
dog barking when young Indy passes with the cross in his hand
is an Alaskan malamute, the same type of dog the Lucases owned
in the late 1970s. That dog it's name was "Indiana". |
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The
character named "Fedora" (played by Richard Young) in the credits
was, in the script, originally named Abner Ravenwood, Marion
Ravenwood's father and Indiana's mentor who was mentioned in
Raiders of the Lost Ark. |
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Walter Donovan was played by Julian Glover, and Donovan's
wife was played by Glover's wife, Isla Blair.
Julian Glover, who appears as Walter Donovan, played General
Veers in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), another Harrison
Ford film.
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John
Williams inserts the Ark of the Covenant's theme from Raiders
when Indy and Elsa come across a representation of it on a wall
in the catacombs below Venice. |
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Although Sean Connery is only 12 years older than Harrison
Ford, he plays his father.
Having Sean Connery play Jones' father was an inside joke
to James Bond being the father of Indiana Jones. Speilberg
had always wanted to do a Bond film but did Indiana Jones
as a James Bond type character.
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The
deleted scene featuring Suzanne Roquette as the "Film Director"
during the Nazi rally was intended as a reference to filmmaker
Leni Riefenstahl and her propaganda documentary, Triumph of
the Will. Both Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have often
quoted her films |
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Michael Sheard, who appears uncredited as Hitler, was Admiral
Ozzel in The Empire Strikes Back (another Harrison Ford film).
Actor Michael Sheard, appearing uncredited as Hitler, also
appeared in Raiders of the Lost Ark, again uncredited, as
the U-Boat Captain.
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Actor
Pat Roach appears as a thug in all three Indiana Jones movies.
He's both the Giant Sherpa and a mechanic in Raiders of the
Lost Ark, he's the Chief Guard (who gets crushed by the rock
crusher) in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and he's a
Gestapo officer in Last Crusade. |
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The
film stars a former James Bond (Sean Connery), a former Bond
ally (John Rhys-Davies), a former Bond girl (Alison Doody),
two former Bond commanding officers (Michael Byrne and Billy
J. Mitchell), a former Bond nightclub owner (Vernon Dobtcheff),
and three former Bond villains (Julian Glover, Stefan Kalipha
and Pat Roach). |
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In
the movie the grail is located in the Republic of Hatay near
the city of Alexandretta. There actually was a Republic of Hatay
from 1938 to 1939, after the region was granted independence
from French Syria and before it became a province of Turkey.
The capital of Hatay was Alexandretta before 1939 when the city's
name was changed to Iskenderun and the capital moved to Antioch.
An early title indicates the movie's action takes place in 1938. |
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Indiana
Jones' horse also appeared in Rambo III (1988) as John Rambo's
horse. |
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The
second film in which Byrne, Michael portrays a Nazi opposite
Harrison Ford. The first was Force 10 from Navarone (1978). |
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Just
after watching Indiana wrestling with a Nazi, the soldier who
looked through the periscope says something to his teammates
in German. What he says translates as, "The American, he fights
like a girl." |
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While
filming in Petra, Jordan, the Jordanian Royal Family (Queen
Noor, Prince Hamzah, Prince Hashim and Princess Iman) visited
the set. |
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The
temple right at the end of the movie exists, but not in Alexandretta.
It is in Petra, in Jordan. However, there is no inside to it
- the doorway that can be seen on screen leads to a very small
room - about ten foot by ten foot. Similarly, they would be
unable to get "lost" down the valley as the valley stretches
for about a mile or so, and there is no other route but out. |
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Unable
to keep his hat on during the scene where he was chasing the
tank on horseback despite trying glue, tape, and newspaper wedges,
Harrison Ford pretended (in a "Making Of" special) to staple
the hat to his head. |
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to the address on the package he received from Italy, during
The Last Crusade, Indy teaches at "Barnett College". |
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Chris Columbus wrote a rejected drafted in which Indy traveled
to Africa and dueled a Monkey prince, but the script was also
rejected because of too many negative African stereotypes
Read
the screenplay >>
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