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Raiders of the Lost Ark - Widescreen (1981)
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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 co-written 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.
Starring:
Harrison Ford,
Karen Allen,
Denholm Elliott,
Paul Freeman
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Features:
Closed Caption; New introduction by Steven Spielberg and Geroge Lucas; The Indy Trilogy: A crystal clear appreciation; The mystery of the melting face; Snakes alive! The well of souls storyboards; Photo galleries; LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventur
Run Length:
115 minutes
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