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Running time128 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$48 millionBox office$474.2 millionIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American - directed by, from a story co-written by executive producer. It is the third installment in the.

Reprises, while is portrayed. Other cast members featured include,. In the film, set largely in 1938, Indiana searches for his father, a scholar, who has been kidnapped by.After the mixed reaction to, Spielberg chose to tone down the gore in the next installment. During the five years between The Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade, he and executive producer Lucas reviewed several scripts before accepting 's. Filming locations included, the, and the.The film was released in North America on May 24, 1989 to mostly positive reviews and a financial success, earning $474.2 million at the worldwide box office totals. It won an for. Contents.Plot In 1912, thirteen-year-old is horseback riding with his troop at in.

Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody) was the hidden villainess and anti-heroine in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. A trained archeologist, Dr. Schneider seduces both Indiana Jones and his father in the Nazis' ruthless quest of the Holy Grail for Hitler.

While scouting caves, Indy discovers a group of grave robbers who have found a golden belonging to and steals it from them, hoping to donate it to a museum. The men give chase through a passing, leaving Indy with a bloody cut across his chin from a and a new.

Indy escapes, but the local sheriff makes him return the cross to the robbers, who immediately turn it over to a mysterious benefactor wearing a. Impressed with Indy's bravery, gives Indy his to encourage him to not give up.In 1938, Indy battles ' and his henchmen on a ship off the storm-blasted coast of, and escaping overboard just before the ship explodes, he recovers the cross and donates it to 's museum. Later, Indy is introduced to, who informs him that his father, has vanished while searching for the, using an incomplete inscription from a stone tablet as his guide. Indy receives Henry's Grail diary via mail from, and heads there with Marcus, where they meet Henry's colleague Dr. Beneath the library where Henry was last seen, Indy and Elsa discover a set of half-flooded catacombs that house the tomb of a knight, which contains a complete version of the inscription that Henry had used, revealing the location of the Grail. They flee when the -saturated waters of the catacombs are set aflame by the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword, a that protects the Grail from evildoers. Indy and Elsa capture one of the Brotherhood, who tells Indy where Henry is being held after Indy explains that his only goal is to find Henry, not the Grail.

Marcus reveals a map drawn by Henry of the route to the Grail, which begins in Alexandretta. Indy removes the map from the diary, gives it to Marcus for safekeeping, and sends him to, the city built on the ruins of Alexandretta, to rendezvous with their old friend.Indy and Elsa head to a -controlled castle in Austria where Henry is being held. Indy finds Henry, but learns that both Elsa and Donovan are actually working with the Nazis and are using the Joneses to find the Grail for them. Marcus is captured in while meeting with Sallah.

After escaping from the castle, Henry tells Indy that the Grail is guarded by three and his diary contains the clues needed to pass them safely. Indy recovers the diary from Elsa at a rally in, briefly coming face-to-face with. They board a to leave Germany, but the Nazis discover the Joneses are aboard. The Joneses escape in a, and crash while engaging in a with fighters, probably B-2s, when Henry accidentally shoots off the rudder of their plane while firing the machine guns mounted in the rear cockpit.The two meet up with Sallah in Hatay, where they learn of Marcus' abduction.

The Nazis have been equipped by the of Hatay and are already moving toward the Grail's location, using the map possessed by Marcus. Indy, Henry, and Sallah find the Nazi expedition, which is ambushed by the Brotherhood.

During the battle, Henry is captured by SS Colonel while attempting to rescue Marcus from a tank; Kazim and his comrades are killed. Indy pursues the tank on horseback and, with the aid of Sallah, saves Henry and Marcus. He is caught up in a fight with Vogel, and barely escapes before the tank goes over a cliff, sending Vogel to his death.Indy, Henry, Marcus, and Sallah catch up with the surviving Nazis, led by Donovan and Elsa, who have found the temple where the Holy Grail is kept but are unable to get past the three protective traps.

Donovan shoots and mortally wounds Henry in order to force Indy to risk his life in the traps to find the Grail and use its healing power to save his father. Using the information in the diary and followed by Donovan and Elsa, Indy safely overcomes the traps (which include fast-moving saw blades, a word puzzle, and a hidden bridge over a bottomless pit) and reaches the Grail's chamber, which is guarded. He has been kept alive for 700 years by the power of the Grail, which is hidden among dozens of false grails; only the true Grail grants eternal life, while a false one will kill the drinker. Elsa selects a golden chalice studded with emeralds for Donovan, who rapidly ages into dust after drinking from it, proving it to be false. Indy picks a simple wooden cup, which turns out to be the correct one. The knight tells him that he has 'chosen wisely,' but warns them that the Holy Grail cannot be taken beyond the temple's entrance, in accordance with the Law of God, which will cause those who drank the Grail to lose their immortality.Indy fills the Grail with and gives it to Henry, healing him instantly.

Elsa disregards the knight's warning and tries to take the Grail with her, causing the temple to collapse around them. When the Grail falls into a chasm in the floor, Elsa plummets to her death trying to recover it, due to her being unable to let go of her obsession with it. Indy nearly suffers the same fate before Henry urges him to leave it. As the knight watches them leave, the Joneses, Marcus, and Sallah escape the temple and ride off into the sunset.Cast.

See also:. as: The archaeologist adventurer who seeks to rescue his father and find the Holy Grail. Ford said he loved the idea of introducing Indiana's father because it allowed him to explore another side to Indiana's personality: 'These are men who have never made any accommodation to each other. Indy behaves differently in his father's presence. Who else would dare call Indy 'junior'?' .

as a younger Indiana Jones. Phoenix had portrayed the son of Ford's character in (1986). Ford recommended Phoenix for the part; he said that of the young actors working at the time, Phoenix looked the most like him when he was around that age. as Marcus Brody: Indiana's bumbling English colleague.

Elliott returned after Spielberg sought to recapture the tone of (1981), following the actor's absence in the darker (1984). as: An Austrian art professor who is in league with the Nazis. She seduces the Joneses to trick them. Doody was 21 when she auditioned and was one of the first actresses who met for the part. as: A friend of Indiana and a professional living in.

Like Elliott's, Rhys-Davies' return was an attempt to recapture the spirit of Raiders of the Lost Ark. as Walter Donovan: An American businessman who sends the Joneses on their quest for the Holy Grail out of a desire for while secretly working with the Nazis for the same goal.

Glover previously appeared as in Lucas'. He originally auditioned for the role of Vogel. Glover, who is English, adopted an American accent for the film, but was dissatisfied with the result.

as: Indiana's father, a professor of who cared more about looking for the Grail than raising his son. Spielberg had Connery in mind when he suggested introducing Indiana's father, though he did not tell Lucas at first. Consequently, Lucas wrote the role as 'a crazy, eccentric' professor resembling, whose relationship with Indiana is 'strict schoolmaster and student rather than a father and son'. Spielberg had been a fan of Connery's work as and felt that no one else could perform the role as well.

Spielberg biographer wrote, 'Connery was already the father of Indiana Jones since the series had sprung from the desire of Lucas and Spielberg to rival (and outdo) Connery's.' Connery initially turned the role down as he is only twelve years older than Ford, but he relented. Connery—a student of history—began to reshape the character, and revisions were made to the script to address his concerns. 'I wanted to play Henry Jones as a kind of,' Connery commented. 'I was bound to have fun with the role of a gruff, Victorian Scottish father.' Connery believed Henry should be a match for his son, telling Spielberg that 'whatever Indy'd done my character has done and my character has done it better'.

Connery signed to the film on March 25, 1988. He improvised the line, 'She talks in her sleep', which was left in because it made everyone laugh; in Boam's scripts, Henry telling Indiana that he slept with Elsa occurs later. plays Henry in the film's prologue, though his face is not shown and his lines were dubbed by Connery.Additionally, portrays Ernst Vogel, a brutal colonel. Byrne and Ford had previously starred in (1978), in which they also respectively played a German and an American.

Portrays Kazim, The leader of the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword, an organization that protects the Holy Grail. Malikyan had impressed Spielberg with his performance in (1978) and would have auditioned for the role of Sallah in Raiders of the Lost Ark had a traffic jam not delayed his meeting with the director. Appears as the Grail Knight, the guardian of the Grail who drank from the cup of Christ during the Crusades and is immortal as long as he stays within the temple. Eddison was a stage and television veteran only appearing in a few films since the 1930s (including a supporting role in 's 1948 comedy ). Glover recalled Eddison was excited and nervous for his return to film, often asking if he had performed correctly. Was originally considered to play the Grail Knight, but he was too ill and died the same year in which the film was released.appears as, whom Jones briefly encounters at the book-burning rally in Berlin.

Although a non-speaking role, Sheard could speak German and had already portrayed Hitler three times during his career. He had also appeared as in The Empire Strikes Back and as Oskar Schomburg in Raiders of the Lost Ark. In the same scene, who played in Raiders of the Lost Ark, cameos as. Played the sultan of Hatay. Portrayed 'the man with the Panama Hat' who took possession of the Cross of Coronado. Wrestler and stuntman, who played three roles in the previous two films, made a short cameo as the Nazi who accompanies Vogel to the Zeppelin.

Roach was set to film a fight with Ford, but it was cut. In a deleted scene, Roach's agent boards the second biplane on the Zeppelin with a World War I flying ace (played by ), only for the pair to fall to their deaths after the flying ace makes an error.Production Development Lucas and Spielberg had intended to make a trilogy of films since Lucas had first to Spielberg in 1977. After the mixed critical and public reaction to, Spielberg decided to complete the trilogy to fulfill his promise to Lucas, with the intent to invoke the film with the spirit and tone of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Throughout the film's development and, Spielberg admitted he was 'consciously regressing' in making the film. Due to his commitment to the film, the director had to drop out of directing.

Chris Columbus' script featured the Monkey King in AfricaLucas initially suggested making the film 'a movie', for which writer wrote a script. Spielberg rejected the idea because of the similarity to, which he had co-written and produced. Lucas first introduced the in an idea for the film's prologue, which was to be set in Scotland.

He intended the Grail to have a basis, with the rest of the film revolving around a separate Christian artifact in Africa. Spielberg did not care for the Grail idea, which he found too, even after Lucas suggested giving it healing powers and the ability to grant immortality. In September 1984, Lucas completed an eight-page treatment titled Indiana Jones and the, which he soon followed with an 11-page outline. The story saw Indiana battling a ghost in Scotland before finding the in Africa.—who had written the Spielberg-produced, and —was hired to write the script. His first draft, dated May 3, 1985, changed the main plot device to a.

It begins in 1937, with Indiana battling the murderous ghost of Baron Seamus Seagrove III in Scotland. Indiana travels to to aid Dr. Clare Clarke (a -type according to Lucas), who has found a 200-year-old. The pygmy is kidnapped by the Nazis during a boat chase, and Indiana, Clare and Scraggy Brier—an old friend of Indiana—travel up the river to rescue him.

Indiana is killed in the climactic battle but is resurrected by the. Other characters include a cannibalistic African tribe; Nazi Sergeant Gutterbuhg, who has a mechanical arm; Betsy, a stowaway student who is suicidally in love with Indiana; and a pirate leader named Kezure (described as a -type), who dies eating a peach because he is not pure of heart.Columbus' second draft, dated August 6, 1985, removed Betsy and featured Dash—an bar owner for whom the Nazis work—and the Monkey King as villains. The Monkey King forces Indiana and Dash to play chess with real people and disintegrates each person who is. Indiana subsequently battles the undead, destroys, and marries Clare.

Commenced in Africa but Spielberg and Lucas abandoned Monkey King because of its negative depiction of African natives, and because the script was too unrealistic. Spielberg acknowledged that it made him '. Feel very old, too old to direct it.'

Columbus' script was leaked onto the Internet in 1997, and many believed it was an early draft for because it was mistakenly dated to 1995.Dissatisfied, Spielberg suggested introducing Indiana's father, Lucas was dubious, believing the Grail should be the story's focus, but Spielberg convinced him that the father–son relationship would serve as a great metaphor in Indiana's search for the artifact. Spielberg hired, who had worked on Spielberg's and, to begin a new script on January 1, 1986. Meyjes completed his script ten months later. It depicted Indiana searching for his father in, where he meets a nun named Chantal. Indiana travels to, takes the to, and continues by train to, where he meets and reunites with his father.

Together they find the grail. At the climax, a Nazi villain touches the Grail and explodes; when Henry touches it, he ascends a stairway to. Chantal chooses to stay on Earth because of her love for Indiana. In a revised draft dated two months later, Indiana finds his father in, the Nazi leader is a woman named Greta von Grimm, and Indiana battles a demon at the Grail site, which he defeats with a dagger inscribed with 'God is King'. The prologue in both drafts has Indiana in Mexico battling for possession of 's death mask with a man who owns gorillas as pets. finds the Cross of Coronado as a 13-year-old Boy Scout. Spielberg suggested making Indiana a Boy Scout as both he and Harrison Ford were former Scouts.Spielberg suggested writer perform the next rewrite.

Boam spent two weeks reworking the story with Lucas, which yielded a treatment that is largely similar to the final film. Boam told Lucas that Indiana should find his father in the middle of the story. 'Given the fact that it's the third film in the series, you couldn't just end with them obtaining the object.

That's how the first two films ended,' he said, 'So I thought, let them lose the Grail, and let the father–son relationship be the main point. It's an archaeological search for Indy's own identity and coming to accept his father is more what it's about than the quest for the Grail.'

Boam said he felt there was not enough character development in the previous films. In Boam's first draft, dated September 1987, the film is set in 1939. The prologue has adult Indiana retrieving an Aztec relic for a museum curator in Mexico and features the circus train.

Henry and Elsa (who is described as having dark hair) were searching for the Grail on behalf of the Chandler Foundation, before Henry went missing. The character of Kazim is here named Kemal, and is an agent of the Republic of Hatay, which seeks the grail for its own. Kemal shoots Henry and dies drinking from the wrong chalice. The Grail Knight battles Indiana on horseback, while Vogel is crushed by a boulder when stealing the Grail.Boam's February 23, 1988 rewrite utilized many of Connery's comic suggestions. It included the prologue that was eventually filmed; Lucas had to convince Spielberg to show Indiana as a boy because of the mixed response to Empire of the Sun, which was about a young boy. Spielberg—who was later awarded the —had the idea of making Indiana a.

The 1912 prologue as seen in the film refers to events in the lives of Indiana's creators. When Indiana cracks the bullwhip to defend himself against a lion, he accidentally lashes and scars his chin. Ford gained this scar in a car accident as a young man. Indiana taking his nickname from his pet is a reference to the character being named after Lucas' dog. The train carriage Indiana enters is named 'Doctor Fantasy's Magic Caboose', which was the name producer used when performing magic tricks. Spielberg suggested the idea, Marshall came up with the false-bottomed box through which Indiana escapes, and production designer Elliott Scott suggested the trick be done in a single, uninterrupted shot.

Spielberg intended the shot of Henry with his umbrella—after he causes the bird strike on the German plane—to evoke., named Margaret in this version, dismisses Indiana when he returns home with the Cross of Coronado, while his father is on a long-distance call. Walter Chandler of the Chandler Foundation features, but is not the main villain; he plunges to his death in the tank. Elsa introduces Indiana and Brody to a large Venetian family that knows Henry. Appears at the Nazi rally in Berlin. Vogel is beheaded by the traps guarding the Grail.

Kemal tries to blow up the Grail Temple during a comic fight in which gunpowder is repeatedly lit and extinguished. Elsa shoots Henry, then dies drinking from the wrong Grail, and Indiana rescues his father from falling into the chasm while grasping for the Grail. Boam's revision of March 1 showed Henry causing the seagulls to strike the plane, and has Henry saving Indiana at the end.Between an undated 'Amblin' revision and a rewrite by (under the pen name Barry Watson) dated May 8, 1988, further changes were made. Stoppard polished most of the dialogue, and created the 'Panama Hat' character to link the prologue's segments featuring the young and adult Indianas. The Venetian family is cut. Kemal is renamed Kazim and now wants to protect the grail rather than find it. Chandler is renamed Donovan.

The scene of Brody being captured is added. Vogel now dies in the tank, while Donovan shoots Henry and then drinks from the false grail, and Elsa falls into the chasm. The Grail trials are expanded to include the stone-stepping and leap of faith. The Double Arch in the in, Filming began on May 16, 1988, in the in 's. Spielberg originally had planned the chase to be a short sequence shot over two days, but he drew up storyboards to make the scene an action-packed centerpiece. Thinking he would not surpass the truck chase from Raiders of the Lost Ark (because the truck was much faster than the tank), he felt this sequence should be more story-based and needed to show Indiana and Henry helping each other.

He later said he had more fun storyboarding the sequence than filming it. The had begun filming two weeks before. After approximately ten days, the production moved to to film the scenes set in the Sultan of Hatay's palace. Was used for the road, tunnel and beach sequence in which birds strike the plane.

The shoot's Spanish portion wrapped on June 2, 1988, in, with filming of Brody's capture at İskenderun train station. The filmmakers built a mosque near the station for atmosphere, rather than adding it as a visual effect. Near, in the then- state of, served as 'Brunwald Castle' in Austria near the German borderThe exteriors of 'Brunwald Castle' were filmed at in West Germany. Filming for the castle interiors took place in the from June 5 to 10, 1988, at in,. On June 16, was used for the airport interiors. Filming returned to Elstree the next day to capture the motorcycle escape, continuing at the studio for interior scenes until July 18.

One day was spent at on June 29 to film Indiana leaving for Venice. Ford and Connery acted much of the Zeppelin table conversation without trousers on because of the overheated set. Spielberg, Marshall and Kennedy interrupted the shoot to make a plea to the to support the economically 'depressed' British studios. July 20–22 was spent filming the temple interiors. The temple set, which took six weeks to build, was supported on 80 feet of hydraulics and ten for use during the earthquake scene. Resetting between takes took twenty minutes while the hydraulics were put to their starting positions and the cracks filled with plaster. The shot of the Grail falling to the temple floor—causing the first crack to appear—was attempted on the full-size set, but proved too difficult.

Instead, crews built a separate floor section that incorporated a pre-scored crack sealed with plaster. It took several takes to throw the Grail from six feet onto the right part of the crack. July 25–26 was spent on night shoots at, for the Nazi rally.Filming resumed two days later at Elstree, where Spielberg swiftly filmed the library, Portuguese freighter, and catacombs sequences. The steamship fight in the prologue's 1938 portion was filmed in three days on a sixty-by-forty-feet deck built on gimbals at Elstree.

A dozen dump tanks—each holding three hundred imperial gallons (360 U.S. Gallons; 3000 lb.) of water—were used in the scene. Henry's house was filmed at, London. Indiana and Kazim's fight in Venice in front of a ship's propeller was filmed in a water tank at Elstree. Spielberg used a to make it appear the actors were closer to the propeller than they really were. Two days later, on August 4, another portion of the boat chase using sport boats, was filmed at in. The shot of the boats passing between two ships was achieved by first cabling the ships off so they would be safe.

The ships were moved together while the boats passed between, close enough that one of the boats scraped the sides of the ships. An empty speedboat containing dummies was launched from a floating platform between the ships amid fire and smoke that helped obscure the platform.

The stunt was performed twice because the boat landed too short of the camera in the first attempt. The following day, filming in England wrapped at the in, which doubled for Indiana's college (as it had in Raiders of the Lost Ark). (The Treasury) at Petra, Jordan was used for the entrance to the temple housing the Holy Grail.Costume designer found it a challenge to create Connery's costume because the script required the character to wear the same clothes throughout. Powell thought about his own grandfather and incorporated suits and fishing hats. Powell felt it necessary for Henry to wear glasses, but did not want to hide Connery's eyes, so chose rimless ones. He could not find any suitable, so he had them specially made. The Nazi costumes were genuine and were found in Eastern Europe by Powell's co-designer Joanna Johnston, to whom he gave research pictures and drawings for reference.The motorcycles used in the chase from the castle were a mixed bag: the scout model with sidecar in which Indy and Henry escape was an original, complete with machine gun on the sidecar, while the pursuing vehicles were more modern machines dressed up with equipment and logos to make them resemble German army models.Gibbs used Swiss army training planes standing in for.

He built a device based on an to simulate gunfire, which was safer and less expensive than firing. Baking soda was applied to Connery to create Henry's bullet wound. Vinegar was applied to create the foaming effect as the water from the Grail washes it away.At least one reproduction was used during filming despite the film being set two years prior to manufacture of said vehicles.

Effects (ILM) built an eight-foot foam model of the Zeppelin to complement shots of Ford and Connery climbing into the biplane. A biplane model with a two-foot wingspan was used for the shot of the biplane detaching. Animation was used for the shot of the German fighter's wings breaking off as it crashes through the tunnel. The tunnel was a 210 feet model that occupied 14 of ILM's parking spaces for two months. It was built in eight-foot sections, with hinges allowing each section to be opened to film through. Ford and Connery were filmed against; the sequence required their car to have a dirty windscreen, but to make the integration easier this was removed and later into the shot. Dust and shadows were animated onto shots of the plane miniature to make it appear as if it disturbed rocks and dirt before it exploded.

Several hundred were used in the background shots of the seagulls striking the other plane; for the closer shots, ILM dropped feather-coated crosses onto the camera. These only looked convincing because the scene's quick cuts merely required shapes that suggested gulls. ILM's supervised the film's effects sequences.

Indiana discovers a bridge hidden. Ford was filmed in front of a bluescreen for the scene, which was completed by a model of the bridge filmed against a matte paintingSpielberg devised the three trials that guard the Grail.

For the first, the blades under which Indiana ducks like a penitent man were a mix of practical and miniature blades created by Gibbs and ILM. For the second trial, in which Indiana spells ' on stable stepping stones, it was intended to have a tarantula crawl up Indiana after he mistakenly steps on 'J'.

This was filmed and deemed unsatisfactory, so ILM filmed a stuntman hanging through a hole that appears in the floor, 30 feet above a cavern. As this was dark, it did not matter that the matte painting and models were rushed late in production. The third trial, the leap of faith that Indiana makes over an apparently impassable ravine after discovering a bridge hidden by, was created with a model bridge and painted backgrounds. This was cheaper than building a full-size set. A puppet of Ford was used to create a shadow on the 9-foot-tall (2.7 m) by 13-foot-wide (4.0 m) model because Ford had filmed the scene against bluescreen, which did not incorporate the shaft of light from the entrance.Spielberg wanted Donovan's death shown in one shot, so it would not look like an actor having makeup applied between takes. Inflatable pads were applied to 's forehead and cheeks by that made his eyes seem to recede during the character's initial decomposition, as well as a mechanical wig that grew his hair.

The shot of Donovan's death was created over three months by together three puppets of Donovan created by in separate stages of decay, a technique ILM mastered on (1988). A fourth puppet was used for the decaying clothes, because the puppet's torso mechanics had been exposed. Complications arose because 's double had not been filmed for the scene's latter two elements, so the background and hair from the first shot had to be used throughout, with the other faces over it. Donovan's skeleton was hung on wires like a; it required several takes to film it crashing against the wall because not all the pieces released upon impact.designed the sound effects.

He recorded chickens for the sounds of the rats, and digitally manipulated the noise made by a Styrofoam cup for the castle fire. He rode in a biplane to record the sounds for the dogfight sequence, and visited the demolition of a for the plane crashes. Burtt wanted an echoing gunshot for Donovan wounding Henry, so he fired a in 's underground car park, just as Lucas drove in. A rubber balloon was used for the earthquake tremors at the temple. The film was released in selected theaters in the 70 mm Full-Field Sound format, which allowed sounds to not only move from side to side, but also from the theater's. On, in, served as the 'Berlin Airport'of the Austrian castle and German airport were based on real buildings; the Austrian castle was a small West German castle that was made to look larger.

Rain was created by filming granulated soap against black at high speed. It was only lightly into the shots so it would not resemble snow. The lightning was animated. The airport used was at San Francisco's, which already had appropriate architecture.

ILM added a control tower, Nazi banners, vintage automobiles and a sign stating 'Berlin Flughafen'. The establishing shot of the Hatayan city at dusk was created by filming silhouetted cutouts that were backlit and obscured by smoke. Matte paintings were used for the sky and to give the appearance of in the shadows and on the edges of the buildings.

Themes A son's relationship with his estranged father is a common theme in Spielberg's films, including and.The film's exploration of fathers and sons coupled with its use of religious imagery is comparable to two other 1989 films,. Writing for, Caryn James felt the combination in these films reflected concerns, where the worship of God was equated to searching for fathers. James felt that neither Indiana nor his father is preoccupied with finding the Grail or defeating the Nazis, but that, rather, both seek professional respect for one another in their adventure. James contrasted the temple's biblically epic destruction with the more effective and quiet conversation between the Joneses at the film's end. James noted that Indiana's mother does not appear in the prologue, being portrayed as already having died before the film's events began.

Release Marketing. See also:The film's debuted in November 1988 with. Rob MacGregor wrote the novelization that was released in June 1989; it sold enough copies to be included on the.

MacGregor went on to write the first six during the 1990s. Following the film's release, Ford donated Indiana's fedora and jacket to the 's.No toys were made to promote the film; Indiana Jones 'never happened on the toy level', said Larry Carlat, senior editor of the journal Children's Business. Rather, Lucasfilm promoted Indiana as a lifestyle symbol, selling tie-in fedoras, shirts, jackets and watches. Based on the film were released by in 1989:. Was produced by and released in 1991 for the. Wrote another novelization, released in April 2008 by, to coincide with the release of.

Released toys based on The Last Crusade in July 2008. Box office The film was released in North America on Wednesday, May 24, 1989, in 2,327 theaters, earning a record $37,031,573 over the 4-day Memorial Day weekend. Its 3-day opening weekend figure of $29,355,021 was surpassed later that year by and, which grossed more in its opening 3 days than The Last Crusade in 4. Its Saturday gross of $11,181,429 was the first time a film had made over $10 million.

It broke the record for the best seven-day performance, with $50.2 million, added another record with $77 million after twelve days, and earned a $100 million in a record nineteen days. In France, the film broke a record by selling a million admissions within two and a half weeks.The film eventually grossed $197,171,806 in North America and $277 million internationally, for a worldwide total of $474,171,806. At the time of its release, the film was the 11th highest-grossing film of all time. Despite competition from Batman, The Last Crusade became the highest-grossing film worldwide in 1989. In North America, Batman took top position.

Behind and Raiders, The Last Crusade is the third-highest grossing film in North America, though it is also behind The Temple of Doom when adjusting for inflation. Estimates that the film sold over 49 million tickets in North America. Critical response The film opened to mostly positive reviews. On, the film has an approval rating of 88%, with an of 7.91/10.

The site's critics consensus reads, 'Lighter and more comedic than its predecessor, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade returns the series to the brisk serial adventure of Raiders, while adding a dynamite double act between Harrison Ford and Sean Connery.' Calculated a weighted average score of 65 out of 100 based on 14 reviews, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'.Jay Boyar of the said that while the film 'lacks the novelty of Raiders, and the breathless pacing of Temple of Doom, it was an entertaining capper to the trilogy.'

Of remarked the film was 'the wildest and wittiest Indy of them all'. Of and of praised it, as did of. 'Though it seems to have the manner of some magically reconstituted B-movie of an earlier era, The Last Crusade is an endearing original,' Canby wrote, deeming the revelation Indiana had a father who was not proud of him to be a 'comic surprise'. Canby believed that while the film did not match the previous two in its pacing, it still had 'hilariously off-the-wall sequences' such as the circus train chase. He also said that Spielberg was maturing by focusing on the father–son relationship, a call echoed by McBride in Variety. Praised the scene depicting Indiana as a with the Cross of Coronado; he compared it to the 'style of illustration that appeared in the boys' adventure magazines of the 1940s', saying that Spielberg 'must have been paging through his old issues of magazine.

The feeling that you can stumble over astounding adventures just by going on a hike with your Scout troop. Spielberg lights the scene in the strong, basic colors of old pulp magazines.'

Felt Connery and Ford deserved Academy Award nominations. Received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for his performanceIt was panned by in, in magazine, in and Georgia Brown in. Of the called the film 'soulless'. Reviewed the film twice; Hal Hinson's review on the day of the film's release was negative, describing it as 'nearly all chases and dull exposition'. Although he praised Ford and Connery, he felt the film's exploration of Indiana's character took away his mystery and that Spielberg should not have tried to mature his storytelling. Two days later, published a positive review praising the film's adventure and action, as well as the father–son relationship's thematic depth. Influence The film won the; it also received nominations for and (, and ), but lost to and respectively.

Sean Connery received a nomination for. Connery and the visual and sound effects teams were also nominated at the. The film won the 1990, and was nominated for Best Motion Picture Drama at the. John Williams' score won a Award, and was nominated for a. Shops using imagery from this film and the fourth film to promote themselves outside the entrance to PetraThe prologue depicting Indiana in his youth inspired Lucas to create television series, which featured as the young adult Indiana and as the 8- to 10-year-old Indiana.

The 13-year-old incarnation played by Phoenix in the film was the focus of a Young Indiana Jones series of young adult novels that began in 1990; by the ninth novel, the series had become a tie-in to the television show. German author revisited the 1912 prologue in one of his novels, in which Indiana encounters the lead grave robber—whom Hohlbein christens Jake—in 1943.

The film's ending begins the 1995 comic series, which moves forward to depict Indiana and his father searching for the in Ireland in 1945. Spielberg intended to have Connery cameo as Henry in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), but Connery turned it down as he had retired.Petra's use for the movie's climactic scenes greatly contributed to its popularity as an international tourist destination.

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Alison Doody (born 11 November 1966) is an Irish actress and model. After making her feature film debut with a small part in Bond film A View to a Kill (1985), she went on to play Nazi-sympathising archaeologist Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Other roles include Siobhan Donavan in A Prayer for the Dying (1987), Charlotte in Taffin (1988) and Rebecca Flannery in Major League II (1994).

Early life[edit]

The youngest of three children, Doody was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her mother, Joan, was a beauty therapist, and her father Patrick, worked in the property business and farmed.^[1] Doody attended Mount Anville Secondary School.

Career[edit]

Approached by a photographer, Doody took up modelling, which turned into a career in commercial modelling. Doody stringently avoided glamour and nude work — a clause which she extended to her acting career.^{[citation needed]}

Having come to the attention of the casting director of a new James Bond film, she accepted a small part as Jenny Flex in 1985's A View to a Kill. Doody was listed as one of 12 Promising New Actors of 1986 in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 38. Still only 18 when she appeared in the role, Doody was – and remains – the youngest Bond girl to date.^[2] Another early movie was a small part as IRA member Siobhan Donovan in A Prayer for the Dying (1987), which starred Mickey Rourke.

Doody had a non-speaking role in the 1987 television adaptation of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife, Lilias, in his dream. Her first lead role was in a 1988 episode of Jim Henson fantasy series The Storyteller as Sapsorrow, opposite John Hurt, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

She played opposite Pierce Brosnan in the film Taffin (1988) before taking probably her most high-profile part to date, as Austrian Nazi-sympathiser and archaeologistDr. Elsa Schneider in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade playing opposite Harrison Ford. The film also starred Sean Connery as Indy's father; Doody has acted alongside three actors (Moore, Connery, and Brosnan) who have portrayed James Bond.

In 1991 Doody co-starred opposite Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler, inspired by the publishing fraud known as the Hitler Diaries. She subsequently relocated to Hollywood.^{[citation needed]} Chosen to replace Cybill Shepherd as spokeswoman for L'Oréal,^{[citation needed]} she went on to play opposite Charlie Sheen in 1994's Major League II as Flannery, his girlfriend and agent.

After almost a decade away from the screen, Doody returned to acting with a small role in 2003 British comedy movie The Actors with Michael Caine, playing herself in an award ceremony scene.^[3] She played alongside Patrick Swayze in a 2004 television movie adaptation of King Solomon's Mines and also starred in a short called Benjamin's Struggle (2005),^{[citation needed]} a pamphlet about the Holocaust, and in the British TV series Waking the Dead (in a two-part episode called 'The Fall'). In 2010, Doody shot a part in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture (2010). She later guest starred in RTÉ's medical drama The Clinic.^{[citation needed]}, and was set to star in a 2011 remake of horror classic The Asphyx, but the project later stalled.

In 2011 she began the first of two seasons on E4 comedy drama Beaver Falls, playing Pam Jefferson. In 2014 she appeared in We Still Kill the Old Way.

On 21 November 2018 she was awarded by the 'Almería, tierra de cine' award,^[4] and she received a star in Almeria Walk of Fame.^[5]

On November 20, 2019 she was announced to be entering into the Indian film industry with the movie RRR. ^[6]

Personal life[edit]

Doody married Gavin O'Reilly, CEO of the Independent News & Media on 25 June 1994, at the O'Reilly family residence Castlemartin. The couple made their home at Bartra House,^[7] a 10,000-square-foot (930 m²) home overlooking the sea in Dalkey; at the time of purchase, the most expensive house in Ireland.^[8] The marriage produced two daughters. She separated from O'Reilly in 2004, and divorced him in 2006.^{[9][10][failed verification][citation needed]}Kick the buddy: forever draw a weapon.

During the 2011 filming of comedy-drama Beaver Falls in South Africa, Doody met Douglas De Jager, a packaging tycoon from Cape Town. The couple had been keeping their relationship low-key, before De Jager died of a heart attack in July 2012.^[11]

Rick Riordan, dubbed 'storyteller of the gods' by Publishers Weekly, is the author of five #1 New York Times best-selling middle grade series with millions of copies sold throughout the world: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, and the Trials of Apollo, based on Greek and Roman mythology; the Kane Chronicles, based on Ancient Egyptian mythology; and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, based on Norse mythology. Olympus games free. The Trials of Apollo is a pentalogy of fantasy adventure and mythological fiction novels written by American author Rick Riordan that collectively form a sequel to the Heroes of Olympus series. It is set in the same world as other Riordan tales, and references characters and happenings from earlier series. A supplementary book, Camp Half-Blood Confidential, has also been released in addition to the main series. The first book in the series, The Hidden Oracle, was released on May 3, 2016.

Filmography[edit]

Television[edit]

Documentary[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^COOL DOODY. Article from The Evening Standard (London, England) Questia Online Library
2. ^'007 Irish Connections' 10 March 2012, Irish independent
3. ^'Alison Doody Making a Comeback..' showbizireland.com. 14 May 2002. Archived from the original on 18 June 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2008.
4. ^'Alison Doody recogerá su 'Almería, tierra de cine' y una estrella en el Paseo de la Fama este miércoles'. Europa Press (in Spanish). Almería. 19 November 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
5. ^'Alison Doody ya forma parte del paseo de la fama de Almería'. Ideal (in Spanish). Vocento. 21 November 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
6. ^https://twitter.com/RRRMovie/status/1197107394058211328
7. ^Hughes, Emer (2 March 2003). 'Rich chase streets of dreams'. ThePost.ie. Archived from the original on 7 April 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2008.
8. ^Leslie, Neil. HOUSE THAT FOR pounds 1.9M, Daily Mirror, 12 October 1996
9. ^Robinson, James (27 January 2008). 'O'Reilly junior proves passion for print is in the genes'. London: The Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 April 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2008.
10. ^'The Edge: The beautiful Alison Doody is solo again'. Irish Independent. 6 July 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
11. ^'Alison Doody heartbroken as her partner dies suddenly while on holidays in Capri'. Irish Independent. 2 December 2012.
12. ^'A VIEW TO A KILL (1985)'. British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
13. ^'The Stars of 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade': Where Are They Now?'. The Hollywood Reporter. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
14. ^'Former Bond girl Alison Doody is back in new action role'. Independent.ie. 9 July 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
15. ^'Comedy thriller starring Alison Doody at Cork Film Festival'. The Irish Times. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
16. ^''Division 19' Starring Alison Doody'. The Harlton Empire. 16 April 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
17. ^'ADR yesterday on the movie 'The Rising Hawk' COMING SOON TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU'. Instagram. 1 October 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
18. ^'Muse'. Cambridge Film Festival. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
19. ^Press Trust of India (20 November 2019). 'SS Rajamouli ropes in Olivia Morris Ray Stevenson and Alison Doody for RRR'. India Today. Retrieved 20 November 2019.

External links[edit]

• Alison Doody on IMDb
• Alison Doody on Instagram