Directed by Steven Spielberg. Written by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman.

Indiana Jones

• [When discovering Jock has a pet-snake] I hate snakes, Jock! I HATE 'EM!

• [handing a torch to Marion] Here. Wave it at anything that slithers.

Rene Belloq

• [to Indy] You and I are very much alike. Archeology is our religion, yet we have both fallen from the pure faith. Our methods have not differed as much as you pretend. I am a shadowy reflection of you. And it would take only a nudge to make you like me, to push you out of the line.

• Look at this. [holds up a silver pocket watch] It's worthless. Ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless! Like the Ark. Men will kill for it; men like you and me.

• [after trapping Indy in the Well of Souls] You're about to become a permanent addition to this archaeological find. Who knows, in a thousand years, even you may be worth something!

• [When Indy commands Belloq to step back and threatens to blow up the ark with a bazooka] Yes, blow it up! Blow it back to God. All your life has been spent in search of archaeological relics. Inside the Ark are treasures beyond your wildest aspirations. You want to see it open as well as I. Indiana, we are simply passing through history. [pointing to the Ark] This...this is history. Do as you will.

Dialogue

Belloq: Jones, do you realize what the Ark is? It's a transmitter, it's a radio for speaking to God, and it's within my reach.

Jones: You wanna to talk to God? Let's go see him together, I've got nothing better to do.

Sallah: Indy. Why does the floor move?

Jones: Gimme your torch. [drops the torch into the Well of Souls and finds it covered with snakes] Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?

Sallah: Asps. Very dangerous. [pause] You go first.

Jones: I'm going after that truck.

Sallah: How?

Jones: I don't know, I'm making this up as I go.

Marion: You're not the man I knew ten years ago.

Jones: It's not the years, honey; it's the mileage.

Jones: There's a big snake in the plane, Jock!

Jock: Oh, that's just my pet snake Reggie!

Jones: I hate snakes, Jock! I HATE 'EM!

Jock: Come on! Show a little backbone, will ya?

Taglines

• The return of the great adventure.

• The creators of JAWS and STAR WARS now bring you the ultimate hero in the ultimate adventure.

• A film from Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.

• Indiana Jones: the new hero from the creators of JAWS and STAR WARS.

Cast

• Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones
• Karen Allen - Marion Ravenwood
• Paul Freeman - Rene Belloq
• John Rhys-Davies - Sallah
• Denholm Elliott - Marcus Brody
• Ronald Lacey - Major Toht
• Wolf Kahler - Colonel Dietrich
• Anthony Higgins - Gobler
• George Harris - Katanga

See also

• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull