Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
    1989

    Synopsis

    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!

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    Cast

    • Harrison FordIndiana Jones
    • Sean ConneryHenry Jones
    • Denholm ElliottMarcus Brody
    • Alison DoodyElsa Schneider
    • John Rhys-DaviesSallah
    • Julian GloverWalter Donovan
    • River PhoenixYoung Indy
    • Michael ByrneVogel
    • Kevork MalikyanKazim
    • Robert EddisonGrail Knight

    Recommendations

    • 100

      San Francisco Chronicle

      It's a beautiful machine, thought out and revved up to the last detail, with no other purpose but to delight - and it delights. [24 May 1989, Daily Notebook, p.E1]
    • 90

      Variety

      The Harrison Ford-Sean Connery father-and-son team gives Last Crusade unexpected emotional depth, reminding us that real film magic is not in special effects.
    • 88

      USA Today

      The relaxed and confident Crusade is the first Jones outing to benefit from actual characterizations. [24 May 1989, Life, p.1D]
    • 88

      Chicago Sun-Times

      It is just as well that Last Crusade will indeed be Indy's last film. It would be too sad to see the series grow old and thin, like the James Bond movies.
    • 75

      Chicago Tribune

      Fully up to, as well as virtually indistinguishable from, its predecessors… The guarantee of Indiana Jones is that the pace never varies and the tone never changes; when you've had enough, you can feel free to leave. [24 May 1989, Tempo, p.1]
    • 60

      The New Republic

      More amusing than exciting. [19 June 1989, p.28]
    • 60

      Los Angeles Times

      You can't roll monstrous boulders straight at audiences any more and have a whole theater-full duck and gasp with fright--and pleasure. We may be plumb gasped out. And although Harrison Ford is still in top form and the movie is truly fun in patches, it's a genre on the wane. [24 May 1989, Calendar, p.6-1]
    • 50

      The New Yorker

      The action simply doesn't have the exhilarating, leaping precision that Spielberg gave us in the past... The joyous sureness is missing. [12 June 1989]

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