Indiana Jones and the last crusade

1989 USA Color 127 minutes

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Review

I should have mailed it to the Marx Brothers!

Harrison FordIndiana's (Harrison Ford) eccentric father, Henry Jones (Sean Connery) is working for a wealthy collector who is financing his life long quest for the Holy Grail. Henry keeps the information and maps to the whereabouts of the Grail in his diary. The Nazis keen to possess the grail, because it gives eternal life, kidnap Jones Senior.

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Indiana, working from his father's notebook, follows a trail from America to Venice, to the deserts of the Holy Land. He frees his father and they find themselves in a series of tough and exciting situations. But then they are captured by the Nazi's who shoot Henry forcing Indiana to retrieve the Grail to heal his fatal wounds.

Cast

Directed by Steven Spielberg

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Within 85 days, filming will start on Hawaii (August, 2007)

Within 4 days, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, will be released (May 21, 2008)

News

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Within 14 days it would have been Denholm Elliott`s (Marcus Brody) 86th birthday.
* May 31, 1922
† October 6, 1992

Within 24 days it would have been Robert Eddison`s (Grail Knight) 100th birthday.
* June 10, 1908
† December 14, 1991

Trivia

Release date: May 24, 1989

Won Oscar: Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing

Oscar Nomination: Best Sound

The series:
Raider of the lost ark (1981)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods
Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods (2008).

Spielberg made the film for two reasons:
1. To fulfill a three-picture obligation he had with George Lucas
2. to compensade for the criticism that he received for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). Source / More (Book)

Indiana Jones was named for George Lucas’ malamute dog Indiana. So Sallah’s laughing you were named after a dog? is based on facts. Source / More (Book)

The temple at the end of the movie exists, but not in Alexandretta. It is in Petra, in Jordan. While filming, the Jordanian Royal Family visited the set.

Spielberg had always wanted to do a Bond film. The hiring of Sean Connery was a joke to James Bond being the father of Indiana Jones. Source / More (Book)

Bibliography


Bio

Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford

Remarkable:

Harrison about Blade runner: “Blade runner was not my favorite film. I tangled with Ridley.”.

Born:

July 13, 1942

Arguably one of the most bankable movie star ever, Harrison Ford came into his success relatively late in life. Ford was working as a carpenter when in 1973 he got the chance to audition for American Graffiti. Ford played a secondary role but the most important aspect of that film, however, was that it marked Ford’s first collaboration with director George Lucas.

Four years later he became a co-star in Star wars and a superstar in Raiders of the lost ark. Harrison was nominated for an Academy award for his portrait of a city cop in Amish county in Witness.

Over the next ten years, his films ran the gamut from legal thrillers (1990’s Presumed Innocent) to classic romantic comedies (Sabrina in 1995) to action-adventure blockbusters, Patriot Games (1992), Clear and Present Danger (1994) and The Fugitive (1993).

Most recently, he starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in the thriller What Lies Beneath (2000).

A fourth Indiana Jones installment is in the works and slated for 2008 and Crossing Over (2007) tells the story of about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles.

Academy awards

1986 Nominated Oscar Best Actor for: Witness (1985)

Selected Movies: