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- BFI identifier339827
- Date1989 (Copyright)
- Production countryUSA
- Production company
- SynopsisPeriod action film. After an opening sequence set in 1912, showing a teenage Indiana Jones who is already becoming involved in archaeology and adventure, and which introduces his scholarly but distant father, the film progresses to 1938. Indiana's father, a world authority on the Holy Grail, has been kidnapped, apparently by Nazis. Indiana goes to Venice in an attempt to track him down, where he becomes romantically involved with a female colleague. They become involved in a race to find the Grail before the Nazis reach it, which takes them to North Africa. Once at the Temple where the Grail is housed, the Nazis shoot Indiana's father, and thus persuade Indiana to fetch the Grail for them (using his knowledge to solve the riddles which protect it), because he can only be saved by drinking from the Grail. Indiana succeeds, his father is saved, and the Nazis are defeated when an earthquake destroys the temple and the Grail falls irretrievably into a huge crack in the ground. (Synopsis)
- Work historyUK locations include: Rickmansworth Masonic School, Herts (as college lecture hall/campus); Tilbury Docks, Essex (for Venice speedboat chase); Stowe School, Bucks (for Berlin book-burning rally); Royal Horticultural Halls & Conference Centre, Vincent Square, Westminster, London (as Templehof Airport Berlin interior); North Weald Airfield, Essex (as Templehof Airport Berlin exterior).
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- CreditsDirected by: Steven Spielberg
©: Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL)
a Lucasfilm Ltd. production: Lucasfilm Ltd
view all - CastHarrison Ford (Indiana Jones)
Denholm Elliott (Marcus Brody)
Alison Doody (Dr Elsa Schneider)
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Title
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Original)
Category
Fiction- Collections
- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
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- StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-jwd
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view all - ArticlesEmpire vSpec nSteven Spielberg - Article, Bibliography, FilmographyVariety 24 May 1989 - ReviewCinefantastique v19 n4 May 1989 - ArticleCinefantastique v20 n1/2 November 1989 - Credits, Reviewview all
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- +Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Work - 339827 - 1989 (Copyright)
USA - Film - Fiction
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