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MOVIEmeter: ?
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Director:
Writers:
Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay)
George Lucas (story) ...
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Release Date:
12 June 1981 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Indiana Jones - the new hero from the creators of JAWS and STAR WARS.
Plot:
Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won 4 Oscars. Another 24 wins & 21 nominations more
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(213 articles)
1941 | DVD review
 (From The Guardian - Film News. 28 December 2009, 4:26 AM, PST)

Charlie Brooker's Screen burn 09
 (From The Guardian - TV News. 18 December 2009, 4:06 PM, PST)

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A blockbuster how it was meant to be more (589 total)

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Also Known As:
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (South Africa: English title) (DVD box title) (USA) (video title)
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Runtime:
115 min
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1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)
Certification:
USA:PG (edited for re-rating) (certificate #26345) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Italy:T | Iceland:12 | Finland:K-11 (DVD rating) | South Korea:12 | Brazil:Livre | Argentina:13 | Australia:M (DVD rating) | Australia:PG | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Israel:PG | Netherlands:12 (DVD rating) | Norway:15 (re-rating) | Norway:16 (original rating) | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (re-rating) (2004) | UK:PG (video rating) (1987) | West Germany:16 | Canada:G (Quebec) (re-rating) (2003) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) (original rating)

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Trivia:
The name Marion Ravenwood was a combination of two names: Marion was the grandmother of Lawrence Kasdan's wife, and Ravenwood was from Ravenwood Court, a small street off Beverly Glen. more
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Continuity: (At 97:00) Indy is already below decks aboard the u-boat. As the ship's crew looks for him, he is spotted climbing aboard the exterior of the u-boat. 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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Soundtrack:
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Wouldn't a coconut-sized solid gold idol weigh hundreds of pounds?
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110 out of 146 people found the following review useful.
A blockbuster how it was meant to be, 6 December 2004
9/10

Nowadays we keep forgetting how beautiful blockbusters can be. Too much CGI makes everything possible and therefore very often also arbitrary. In Raiders you actually seem to feel the physical pain some of the actors/stuntmen had to go through to provide 2 hours of pure entertainment.

Of course the story isn't waterproof, the Nazi weren't that present in Egypt in 1936 and how did Indy survive that ride on the submarine again? But lots of good and variable action scenes are accompanied by a story that develops fast and excitingly and is always close to being implausible but luckily never is.

Spielberg, Lucas and most of all Harrison Ford created a hero that is nowadays iconic. With their attempt to make an homage to adventure comics of the 1930's they created their own legend.

It's funny, exiting, thrilling and romantic. What more can you ask for?

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