Raiders of the Lost Ark movie

Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant, before the Nazis...

Raiders of the Lost Ark, also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, is a 1981 adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first in the Indiana Jones film and television series, and the twenty-fourth in internal chronology. In the film, the Nazis are searching for the lost Ark of the Covenant to make their army invincible, as it did for the Israelites of the Old Testament, and its up to archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones to find it first.Lucas conceived the film while at the same time as writing Star Wars, due to to his interest in reviving 1930s cliffhanger serials. The film was a hit with audiences and critics alike, leading to two more films, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

There was also the The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television series and a fourth film is in pre-production for release in 2008.PlotIn 1936, in the Peruvian jungle, archaeologist Indiana Jones braves several booby traps to retrieve the Hovito Idol from an ancient temple. After escaping a rolling boulder, he finds rival archaeologist Rene Belloq waiting outside the cave with a small group of Hovitos, the local natives. Surrounded and outnumbered, Jones is forced to give up the artifact to Belloq, but he escapes. Back at the college where he teaches, Jones meets with two Army intelligence agents. They explain that the Nazis, in their quest to gain occult power, are searching for Abner Ravenwood, Jones? former mentor. Ravenwood is the foremost expert on the ancient Egyptian city of Tanis, which has been rediscovered by the Nazis and is believed to be the location of the Ark of the Covenant.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark Cast

• Alfred Molina
• Anthony Higgins
• Bill Reimbold
• Denholm Elliott
• Don Fellows
• Fred Sorenson
• John Rhys-Davies
• Karen Allen popular
• Patrick Durkin
• Paul Freeman
• Ronald Lacey
• Vic Tablian
• William Hootkins
• Wolf Kahler