Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (The Adventures Of Indiana Jones) (2003)

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	Actors and Characters Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones Karen Allen - Marion Ravenswood Denholm Elliott - Marcus Brody Paul Freeman - Belloq Wolf Kahler - Dietrich John Rhys-Davies - Sallah Ronald Lacey - Toht Anthony Higgins - Gobler Alfred Molina - Satipo Vic Tablian - Barranca

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Academy Awards - 1981 (54th)

nominated 9 and won 5 ART DIRECTION - Art Direction: Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley; Set Decoration: Michael Ford CINEMATOGRAPHY - Douglas Slocombe DIRECTING - Steven Spielberg FILM EDITING - Michael Kahn MUSIC (Original Score) - John Williams BEST PICTURE - Frank Marshall, Producer SOUND - Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Roy Charman VISUAL EFFECTS - Richard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson, Joe Johnston SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Sound Effects Editing) - Ben Burtt, Richard L. Anderson

Movie Details
General Details Genre Action/Adventure Director Steven Spielberg Writer George Lucas; Philip Kaufman Studio Language English MPAA Rating PG Run Time 115 mins Country USA	Technical Details Screen Ratio Layers N/A Audio Tracks Subtitles DVD Date 2003 Discs 1 Library Index X

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

Additional Information
Extra Features see The Adventures Of Indiana Jones - The Complete Movie Collection for Extra Features	External Resources IMDB: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (The Adventures Of Indiana Jones) Other: www.dvdtalk.com