Jones: THERE’S A BIG SNAKE IN THE PLANE, JOCK!
Jock: Oh that’s just my pet snake Reggie!
Jones: I HATE SNAKES, JOCK! I HATE ‘EM!
Jock: Come on, show a little backbone, will ya?
Jones: I’m going after that truck. Sallah: How?
Jones: I don’t know. I’m making this up as I go.
Marion: You’re not the man I knew ten years ago. Jones: It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.
Brody: Where is the Ark?
Maj. Eaton: I thought we’d settled that. The Ark is somewhere very safe. Jones: From whom?
Brody: The Ark is a source of unspeakable power and it has to be researched!
Maj. Eaton: And it will be, I assure you, Doctor Brody, Doctor Jones. We have top men working on it right now. Jones: Who?
Maj. Eaton: Top. men.
Marion: Hey! What happened? You don’t look very happy. Jones: Fools. Bureaucratic fools. Marion: What’d they say?
Jones: They don’t know what they’ve got there. Marion: Well I know what I’ve got here. Come on, I’ll buy you a drink. You know, a drink?
- Lucas: A bounty hunter of antiquities.
- Spielberg: I like that. The doctor with the bullwhip.
- Lucas: He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven.
Kasdan: And he was forty-two. Lucas: He hasn’t seen her in twelve years. Now she’s twenty-two. It’s a real strange relationship. Spielberg: She had better be older.
Kasdan: What does she call him? Indy?
Lucas: That’s what I was thinking. Or just Jones.
The player controls Indiana Jones as he searches for the lost Ark of the Covenant. The game requires the player to use two different controllers: controller 2 moves Jones and its button uses an item; controller 1 selects the item to use and its button drops the item.
The video game is set in the city of Cairo in 1936, represented by an entrance room and a marketplace. From the entrance room, the player can blast a hole in the wall with a grenade and enter the Temple of the Ancients. Two paths await inside the Temple, both of which contain various dangers, after which the player will at last find the treasure room. Gold and artifacts can be picked up in the treasure room which will help the player later in the game.
The player must cross a mesa, on the other side of which lies the Map Room where the location of the Lost Ark is revealed. South of the Map Room is a Thieves Den and a Black Market. The Black Market contains various figures, such as two sheikhs, a Tsetse fly and a lunatic, and items needed to win the game (most notably a shovel).
After acquiring all needed items from the various rooms, the player returns to the mesa and jumps off using a parachute. The player goes inside the mesa, via a small hole at the end of a branch, and digs up the Ark, after dodging more thieves.
In 1936, American archaeologist Indiana Jones recovers a golden idol from a booby-trapped Peruvian temple. Rival archaeologist René Belloq corners him and steals the idol; Jones escapes in a waiting seaplane. After returning to the United States, Jones is briefed by two Army Intelligence agents that Nazi German forces are excavating at Tanis, Egypt, and one of their telegrams mentions Jones’ old mentor Abner Ravenwood. Jones deduces that the Nazis seek the Ark of the Covenant, which Adolf Hitler believes will make their army invincible. The agents recruit Jones to recover the Ark first.
At a bar in Nepal, Jones reunites with Ravenwood’s daughter Marion—with whom Jones once had an illicit relationship—and learns Ravenwood is dead. The bar is set ablaze during a scuffle with Gestapo agent Arnold Toht, who arrives to take a medallion from Marion. Toht attempts to recover the medallion from the flames, but only burns its image into his hand. Jones and Marion take the medallion and escape.
Traveling to Cairo, the pair meet Jones’s friend Sallah. Sallah reveals Belloq is assisting the Nazis, who have fashioned an incomplete replica medallion from the burns on Toht’s hand. Nazi soldiers and mercenaries attack Jones, and Marion is seemingly killed, leaving Jones despondent. An imam deciphers the medallion for Jones, revealing that one side bears a warning against disturbing the Ark, and the other bears the correct measurements for the «staff of Ra», an item used to locate the Ark. Jones and Sallah realize that the Nazis are digging in the wrong location, infiltrate the Nazi dig site, and use the medallion and the correctly-sized staff of Ra to locate the Well of Souls, the Ark’s resting place. They recover the Ark—a golden, intricately decorated chest—but Belloq and the Nazis discover them and seize it. Jones and Marion—whom Belloq has held captive—are sealed inside the well, but the pair escape and Jones captures a truck carrying the Ark. Alongside Marion, Jones arranges to transport the Ark to London aboard a tramp steamer. A German U-boat intercepts the steamer and seizes the Ark and Marion; Jones covertly boards the U-boat.
The vessel travels to an island in the Aegean Sea, where Belloq intends to test the power of the Ark before presenting it to Hitler. On the island, Jones ambushes the Nazi group and threatens to destroy the Ark, but surrenders after Belloq deduces that Jones would never destroy something so historically significant, also surmising that Jones wants to know if the Ark’s power is real. The Nazis restrain Jones and Marion at the testing site as Belloq ceremonially opens the Ark but finds only sand inside. At Jones’ instruction, he and Marion close their eyes to avoid looking at the opened Ark, as it releases spirits, flames, and bolts of energy that kill Belloq, Toht, and the assembled Nazis before sealing itself shut. Jones and Marion open their eyes to find the area cleared of bodies and their bindings removed. Back in Washington, D. , the United States government rewards Jones for securing the Ark. Despite Jones’ insistence, the agents state only that the Ark has been moved to an undisclosed location for «top men» to study. In a large warehouse, the Ark is crated up and stored among countless other crates.
Harrison Ford (left, in 2017) and Karen Allen in 2013. They portrayed archaeologist Indiana Jones and his love interest Marion Ravenwood, respectively.
Philip Kaufman (left) in 1991 and Lawrence Kasdan in 2015. Kaufman originated the idea of using the Ark of the Covenant as a central plot device. Kasdan wrote the finished script based on individual set pieces devised by Lucas and Spielberg.
Producer Frank Marshall in 2012. As well as producing, Marshall had a minor role in the film as a Nazi pilot.
Actor Tom Selleck. Initially cast as Indiana Jones, Selleck was forced to withdraw due to his contractual obligations to the television series Magnum, P.
On-set filming location, Elstree Studios (pictured 2009) in Hertfordshire, England.
A 1930s Mercedes-Benz 2. 5 ton diesel truck used in the film on display at Disneyland, California
Actor Paul Freeman in 2016. He was singled out for praise by the otherwise critical Pauline Kael for continuing his performance after a fly appeared to crawl into his mouth.