raiders of the lost ark

     

Raiers of the Lost Ark (also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) is a 1981 adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise, and pits Indiana Jones (played by Ford) against the Nazis, who search for the Ark of the Covenant, to make their army invincible. Indiana and the Nazis search for a medallion, owned by Indy's old flame Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), which will pinpoint the Well of Souls in Egypt, the Ark's resting place. The film also starred Paul Freeman as Indiana's nemesis, French archaeologist Rene Belloq, John Rhys-Davies as Indiana's sidekick Sallah, and Denholm Elliott as Indiana's colleague, Marcus Brody.

Trivia about raiders of the lost ark

  • This 1981 blockbuster introduced the hero Indiana Jones
  • In an early sequence of this film, Harrison Ford is chased by an enormous rolling boulder
  • This Harrison Ford movie was the 1st collaboration by George Lucas & Steven Spielberg
  • "Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?"
  • In this 1981 film Harrison Ford delivers the immortal line "I hate snakes"
  • 1981:"Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?"
  • Kauai filled in for South America in this first Indiana Jones film
  • Harrison Ford famously shot a swordsman in this first Indiana Jones film because he was too ill to do a fight scene
  • This script had Indy going hand to hand against the man with the scimitar--but Harrison had food poisoning, so he just shot him
  • Indy seeks to solve a biblical mystery in this 1981 film that features a quest from Nepal to Cairo
  • 1981:"Don't look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion, and don't look at it no matter what happens"

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