Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

"Have the adventure of your life keeping up with the Joneses."

1989 2h 7m EN

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7.9

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8.2

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★7.9TMDB · 11,419🍅84%Rotten Tomatoes●65Metacritic★8.2IMDB · 858,909

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Synopsis

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In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!

“Have the adventure of your life keeping up with the Joneses.”

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Cast

Harrison Ford
Indiana Jones
Sean Connery
Professor Henry Jones
Denholm Elliott
Marcus Brody
Alison Doody
Elsa
John Rhys-Davies
Sallah
Julian Glover
Walter Donovan
River Phoenix
Young Indy
Michael Byrne
Vogel

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Jeffrey Boam, Menno Meyjes, George Lucas
Languages: Arabic, English, German, Greek
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Made its money back 9.9× over at the box office.

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ERA

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37 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 4 languages: Arabic, English, German, Greek.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Indiana Jones Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Steven Spielberg, shot by Douglas Slocombe. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by John Williams. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Michael Kahn shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Harrison Ford and Sean Connery and Denholm Elliott carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Steven Spielberg directs. Douglas Slocombe behind the camera. John Williams scores. Michael Kahn cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in Arabic, English, German, Greek.

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1Made its money back 9.9× over at the box office.
237 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Dialogue crosses 4 languages: Arabic, English, German, Greek.
4Part of the "Indiana Jones Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Steven Spielberg, shot by Douglas Slocombe. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by John Williams. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Michael Kahn shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Harrison Ford and Sean Connery and Denholm Elliott carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Have the adventure of your life keeping up with the Joneses.".
10IMDB entry: tt0097576 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1111,419 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
12Classified under 35 themes, including "saving the world", "nazi", "holy grail", "venice, italy".
13Released under 20 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Douglas Slocombe
Original score: John Williams
Editing: Michael Kahn
Production design: Elliot Scott
Costume design: Joanna Johnston
Makeup / hair: Zoltan Elek
Sound: Ben Burtt
Stunt coordinator: Vic Armstrong
Runtime: 127 min · 2h 7m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $48,000,000
Box office: $474,171,806
Return: 988% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Rotten Tomatoes: 84% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 65/100
IMDB rating: 8.2/10 · 858,909 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

Won 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 24 nominations total

Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
Academy Award for Best Sound Editing

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Part of

Indiana Jones Collection

Adventure film series created by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman starring Harrison Ford as archaeologist Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., and directed by Steven Spielberg and James Mangold. Spanning the globe, on death-defying archeological endeavors, if adventure has a name... it must be Indiana Jones.

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John Chard2015-12-27
★ 9/10
Raiders Of The Last Crusade. Indiana Jones teams up with his father to try and locate the Holy Grail. Something that the Nazis are again particularly interested in themselves. We didn't know it at the time, but every Indiana Jones fan on the planet presumed that The Last Crusade was to be the final film to feature the intrepid archaeologist. As it turned out, another film would surface in 2008, but casting that aside (as many would like to do), Last Crusade should, and is, judged as the trilogy closer it was meant to be. In 1988 Steven Spielberg was deep into bringing Rain Man to fruition, all thoughts of Indiana Jones had gone by the wayside with the harshly judged part two, Temple Of Doom. In stepped George Lucas to politely remind Spielberg that they had an agreement to make another Indiana Jones picture, Spielberg no doubt obliged and humble, passed on his Rain Man work to Barry Levinson who promptly bagged himself an Oscar for the film. It can be guessed that Spielberg was probably grouchy around this period, but he needn't have worried, because The Last Crusade provided a much needed hit for not only himself (post Empire Of The Sun), but also Lucas (Willow) and Harrison Ford (Frantic). I mention the run up to this picture because it explains a lot on why the film is pretty much a retread of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, something that some detractors find unforgivable. Yet Last Crusade is still an immensely enjoyable adventure picture, with Spielberg proving that he was still capable of a popcorn bonanza. Using the Raiders formula and moving away from the dark flourishes of Temple Of Doom, Last Crusade is actually the simplest film of the three, but still it manages, courtesy of a sparkling casting decision, to become the most entertaining of the original trilogy. Is it better than Raiders? Of course not, but it positively rips along with sparky dialogue and an agenda of cliffhanging suspense like the adventure films of yore. In comes Sean Connery as Dr Jones Senior, and its the picture's trump card, because the magnificent interplay and obvious rapport with Ford (cool as a cucumber) is there for all to see. It's this what drives the film on through the more mundane and picture filler sequences, showcasing two top wily professionals with care and consideration to their craft. The casting of Alison Doody as the main female is a poor one, and one only has to look at her subsequent career post Crusade to see she wasn't up to the task here. Bonus comes in the form of the River Phoenix prologue, Phoenix as the young Indiana paves the way for the jaunty path that Crusade takes, whilst simultaneously giving us a nice little back story from which to launch the adventure. Made for $48 million, the film went on to gross $474,171,806 Worldwide, now that's a lot of people who evidently were happy with Raiders Of The Lost Ark 2! And I gleefully count myself amongst that number. 9/10
Gimly2017-10-18
★ 7/10
It feels very much a retread of Raiders. But, that was a great movie, so it's not exactly as if that's a bad plan. Final rating:★★★½ - I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your time.
Kamurai2020-08-18
★ 7/10
Good watch, could watch again, and can recommend. While Harrison Ford does a great job as Indiana Jones, it is always good to see Sean Connery get involved, even if he is very passive in the action. Then there is an unfortunate amount of flashback, but it is better than doing an "Indian Jones: Origin" movie to explain how he attained his stylish attire and phobia of snakes. This has a quality female companion, an entertaining side character, but we're back to Nazi's again for villains. It almost is just a highlight of the ridiculous lengths that Nazi's went to look for weird resources: the occult ("Hellboy"), artifacts, and investigations into alien contact. This is a return to quality though, it takes up the more serious atmosphere of the first movie and with that concentrates on a dramatically good action adventure movie. This is my favorite of the franchise.