Raiders of the Lost Ark (later marketed as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Lawrence Kasdan from a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. It was produced by Frank Marshall for Lucasfilm Ltd., with Lucas and Howard Kazanjian as executive producers. The film originated from Lucas’s desire to create a modern version of the serial films of the 1930s and 1940s.
- Starring : Harrison Ford / Karen Allen
- Genre : Action / Adventure
- Country : United States
- Language : English / German / Hebrew / Spanish / Arabic / Nepali
- Director : Steven Spielberg
- Production : Paramount Pictures / Lucasfilm
- Distributor : Paramount Pictures / Cinema International Corporation (CIC) / Eye Film Instituut / Filmes Lusomundo / Greater Union Organisation (GUO) / Paramount Films of India / Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI) / American Broadcasting Company (ABC) / Argentina Video Home / BBC One / BBC Three / BBC Two / CBS / CIC Video / CIC Vídeo / CIC-Taft Home Video / Esselte CIC Video / Esselte Video / Film1 Action / Finnkino / Home Video Hellas (HVH) / La 5 / Mainostelevisio (MTV3) / Malofilm Home Video / MovieLine Entertainment / Music Television (MTV) / Nelonen / Paramount Home Entertainment / Paramount Home Video / Phillips / Pioneer / Prem’er Video Fil’m / TV Asahi / TV3 / Universal Pictures / Veronica
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark movie
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark release date
- June 12, 1981 : USA
- July 30, 1981 : UK
- August 7, 1981 : Ireland
- August 7, 1981 : Sweden
- August 14, 1981 : Australia
- September 1, 1981 : France
- September 16, 1981 : France
- October 5, 1981 : Spain
- December 5, 1981 : Japan
- December 10, 1981 : India
- December 18, 1981 : Israel
- December 25, 1981 : Singapore
- January 24, 1982 : UK (re-release)
- July 16, 1982 : USA (re-release)
- March 25, 1983 : USA (re-release)
- May 13, 2008 : Canada (DVD premiere)
- September 7, 2012 : USA (re-release) (limited) (IMAX version)
- September 21, 2013 : Japan (Mito Short Film Festival)
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark cast
- Harrison Ford as Indy
- Karen Allen as Marion
- Paul Freeman as Belloq
- Ronald Lacey as Toht
- John Rhys-Davies as Sallah
- Denholm Elliott as Brody
- Alfred Molina as Satipo
- Wolf Kahler as Dietrich
- Anthony Higgins as Gobler
- Vic Tablian as Barranca / Monkey Man
- Don Fellows as Col. Musgrove
- William Hootkins as Major Eaton
- Bill Reimbold as Bureaucrat
- Fred Sorenson as Jock
- Patrick Durkin as Australian Climber
The first installment in the Indiana Jones franchise, the film stars Harrison Ford as archaeologist Indiana Jones, who battles a group of Nazis searching for the Ark of the Covenant. It co-stars Karen Allen as Indiana’s former lover, Marion Ravenwood; Paul Freeman as Indiana’s rival, French archaeologist René Belloq; John Rhys-Davies as Indiana’s sidekick, Sallah; Ronald Lacey as Gestapo agent Arnold Toht; and Denholm Elliott as Indiana’s colleague, Marcus Brody. Production was based at Elstree Studios, England, but filming also took place in La Rochelle, France, Tunisia, Hawaii, and California from June to September 1980.
Raiders of the Lost Ark earned $389.9 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1981, and remains one of the highest-grossing films adjusted for inflation. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1982, including Best Picture, and won for Best Art Direction, Film Editing, Sound, and Visual Effects with a fifth Academy Award: a Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects Editing. It is often considered one of the greatest films ever made. In 1999, it was included in the U.S. Library of Congress’ National Film Registry as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. The film began a franchise starting with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and including a prequel television series (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) and numerous video games.
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