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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.7
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Metascore: 90/100
Reviews: 671 user | 192 critic | 11 from Metacritic.com Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis. Director:Steven Spielberg |
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The year is 1936. A professor who studies archeology named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles in South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap doing so, miraculously, he escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Renee Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it. Written by John Wiggins
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Indiana Jones - the new hero from the creators of JAWS and STAR WARS. See more »Parents Guide:
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USARelease Date:
12 June 1981 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Indiana Jones See more »Box Office
Budget:
$18,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$1,673,731 (USA) (7 September 2012)Gross:
$3,115,115 (USA) (28 September 2012)Company Credits
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Satipo: [picking up poison dart] The Hovitos are near. The poison is still fresh, three days. They're following us.
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(1878) (uncredited)
From "H.M.S. Pinafore"
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by William S. Gilbert
Sung a cappella by John Rhys-Davies
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The German plane that the Ark was going to be transported on is an experimental flying wing design by Blohm and Voss, a shipbuilding company that designed some rather unorthodox aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s. This particular model only exists in the film, but borrows various design elements from authentic period aircraft. See more »Goofs
While tradition has it that only ritually pure members of Jewish priestly families were able to even touch the Ark, let alone carry it, nobody is seen touching it directly (except when it's opened); it's either carried on poles while covered with cloth or inside a packing crate. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Satipo: [picking up poison dart] The Hovitos are near. The poison is still fresh, three days. They're following us.
Barranca: If they knew we were here, they would've killed us already.
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Crazy Credits
The mountain in the Paramount logo dissolves into the mountain in the Peruvian jungle. See more »Soundtracks
"A British Tar"(1878) (uncredited)
From "H.M.S. Pinafore"
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by William S. Gilbert
Sung a cappella by John Rhys-Davies
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The Indiana Jones series was the best series ever made, in my opinion. It was extremely fun and enjoyable to watch and it can be watched repeatedly, with no lesser joy. Harrison Ford as Indy is extremely charismatic, like Han Solo, but the character of Indiana for me has an essence that creates a more likable character (modesty, I think) and by doing that, it creates a better trilogy for me, indeed surpassing the Original Star Wars Tilogy (don't get me wrong I love Star Wars as well).
Raiders is such a great film, containing some great action scenes (the Truck scene) and creating Indiana Jones, which is the best adventure hero ever made, partly I think due to Harrison Ford (I don't think these movies would have been as good with Tom Selleck).