| Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Harrison Ford |
Indiana Jones
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| Karen Allen |
Marion Ravenswood
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| Wolf Kahler |
Dietrich
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| Denholm Elliott |
Marcus Brody
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| Paul Freeman |
Belloq
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| Ronald Lacey |
Toht
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| John Rhys-Davies |
Sallah
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| Anthony Higgins |
Gobler
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| Alfred Molina |
Satipo
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| Vic Tablian |
Barranca
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| Movie Details |
| Director |
Steven Spielberg |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG |
| Running Time |
115 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| Indiana Jones ( Harrison Ford ) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling boulder) to fetch a solid gold idol. He loses this artifact to his chief rival, a French archeologist named Belloq ( Paul Freeman ), who then prepares to kill our hero. In the first of many serial-like escapes, Indy eludes Belloq by hopping into a convenient plane. So, then: Is Indiana Jones afraid of anything? Yes, snakes. The next time we see Jones, he's a soft-spoken, bespectacled professor. He is then summoned from his ivy-covered environs by Marcus Brody ( Denholm Elliott ) to find the long-lost Ark of the Covenant. The Nazis, it seems, are already searching for the Ark, which the mystical-minded Hitler hopes to use to make his stormtroopers invincible. But to find the Ark, Indy must first secure a medallion kept under the protection of Indy's old friend Abner Ravenwood, whose daughter Marion ( Karen Allen ) evidently has a "history" with Jones. Whatever their personal differences, Indy and Marion become partners in one action-packed adventure after another, ranging from wandering the snake pits of the Well of Souls to surviving the pyrotechnic unearthing of the sacred Ark. A joint project of Hollywood prodigies George Lucas and Steven Spielberg , with a script cowritten by Lawrence Kasdan and Philip Kaufman , among others, Raiders of the Lost Ark is not so much a movie as a 115-minute thrill ride. Costing $22 million (nearly three times the original estimate), Raiders of the Lost Ark reaped $200 million during its first run. It was followed by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1985) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), as well as a short-lived TV-series "prequel." — Hal Erickson |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
94 |
| In Collection |
Yes |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Release Date |
2003 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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