Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
It is 1936. Archaeology professor Indiana Jones is recruited by the US government to find the Lost Ark of the Covenant, which once contained the tablets upon which the Ten Commandments were written. The Ark, according to legend, has vast power that will make any side that possesses it invincible and the American government wants to find it before The Nazis. Indiana goes to Nepal to meet his old girlfriend Marion Ravenwood who has the medallion that leads to the location of the Ark. Hotly pursued, they travel to Cairo in a race to be the ones to find the Ark before the Nazis do.
Direction Steven Spielberg
Cast Harrison Ford · Karen Allen · Paul Freeman · Ronald Lacey · John Rhys-Davies · Vic Tablian · Denholm Elliott · Wolf Kahler · Alfred Molina · George Harris · Don Fellows · William Hootkins · Tutte Lemkov · Eddie Tagoe · Anthony Higgins · Frank Marshall
Soundtrack John Williams
Screenplay Lawrence Kasdan · George Lucas · Philip Kaufman
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Original title Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
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