Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Review

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade


Release Date: 8th June 1989 - Australia


Production Companies
Paramount Pictures (presents)
Lucasfilm Ltd.

Distribution

Paramount Pictures Australia


Genre: Action/Adventure

Rating: PG

Runtime: 127 minutes


Budget: $48,000,000

Box Office Gross: $474,171,806 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary
In 1938, Indiana Jones successfully retrieves the Cross of Coronado that, in his youth, was foiled by robbers, which he attempted to recover 26 years ago. Indy gets approached by a wealthy businessman, Walter Donovan, who informs him of his father's disappearance. He also offers to find the Holy Grail and his father, who has searched for it throughout his life.

Unfortunately for Indy, rescuing his dad ends with discovering the Nazis
want to find the missing
Grail in their quest for world
domination. Can Jones and
his father stop the Nazis
and retrieve the artefact
before they are willing to

get their hands on it?


Cast
Harrison Ford - Dr. Indiana
Jones
Sean Connery - Professor
Henry Jones
Denholm Elliott - Dr. Marcus
Brody
Alison Doody - Dr. Elsa
Schneider
John Rhys-Davies - Sallah
Julian Glover - Walter Donovan
River Phoenix - Indiana Jones

(aged 13)
Michael Byrne - Colonel Ernst

Vogel

Kevork Malikyan - Kazim
Robert Eddison - The Grail
Knight
Alex Hyde-White - Young Henry Jones

Paul Maxwell - Panama Hat
Richard Young - Fedora
Alexei Sayle - Sultan
Isla Blair - Mrs. Donovan (Cameo)
Vernon Dobtcheff - Butler
J.J. Hardy - Herman
Bradley Gregg - Roscoe
Jeff O'Haco - Half Breed
Vince Deadrick Sr. - Rough Rider
Marc Miles - Sheriff
Ted Grossman - Deputy Sheriff
Tim Hiser - Young Panama Hat
Larry Sanders - Scout Master
Pat Roach - Gestapo
Michael Sheard - Adolf Hitler (Uncredited)

Ronald Lacey - Gestapo (Cameo) (Uncredited)

Crew
Director - Steven Spielberg
Characters/Story/Executive Producer -

George Lucas

Characters - Philip Kaufman

Story - Menno Meyjes

Screenplay - Jeffrey Boam

Executive Producer/Second Unit Director -
Frank Marshall
Producer - Robert Watts

Production Executive: USA - Kathleen Kennedy
Casting Directors - Maggie Cartier,
Mike Fenton, Valorie Massalas and Judy Taylor

Animal Trainers: USA - Boone Narr

and Paul 'Sled' Reynolds
Production Designer - Elliott Scott

Production Illustrators - David Jones

and Ed Verreaux

Supervising Art Director - Fred Hole

Art Director - Stephen Scott

Art Director: Spain - Benjamin Fernandez
Set Decorator - Peter Howitt

Property Master - Barry Wilkinson

Armourer - Simon Artheton
Costume Designers - Joanna Johnston
and Anthony Powell
Makeup Supervisor - Peter Robb-King

Makeup Effects Supervisor: ILM - Stephan Dupuis

Chef Makeup Artist: Prosthetics - Nick Dudman

Chief Hairdresser - Colin Jamison
Director of Photography - Douglas Slocombe

Director of Photography: Second Unit, USA -

Rexford L. Metz

Additional Photography - Paul Beeson

Additional Photography: USA - Robert M. Stevens

Camera Operators - Mike Roberts and David Worley

Camera Operator: USA - Norman G. Langley

Camera Operators: Second Unit -

Derek V. Browne and Wally Byatt

Second Assistant Cameramen - Graham Hall and

Clive Mackey

Panaglide Operator: USA - Raymond Stella

Panaglide Assistant: USA - Clyde E. Bryan

Production Supervisor: UK - Patricia Carr

Production Manager: UK - Roy Button

Production Managers: USA - Joan Bradshaw

and Ian Bryce

Production Coordinator: USA - Lata Ryan

First Assistant Director: UK - David Tomblin

Second Assistant Directors: UK - Lee Clearly

and Patrick Kinney
Second Unit Director - Michael D. Moore
Stunt Coordinator - Vic Armstrong

Helicopter Pilot - Marc Wolff
Special Effects Supervisor: USA - Michael Lantieri
Mechanical Effects Supervisor - George Gibbs
Visual Effects Supervisor - Michael J. McAlister

Visual Effects Art Director: ILM - Steve Beck

Camera Operators: ILM - Peter Daulton,

Kim Marks, Pat Sweeney and Pat Turner

Animation Supervisor: ILM - Wes Takahashi
Editor - Michael Kahn

Associate Editor - Colin Wilson

Assistant Editors - Patrick Crane,

Andrew MacRitchie, Nick Moore,

Carin-Anne Strohmaier and Robert Frazen

(Uncredited)

Sound Design/Re-Recording Mixer - Ben Burtt

Supervising Sound Editor - Richard Hymns

Dialogue Editors - Karen Spangenberg,

Michael Silvers and Gloria D'Alessandro

Sound Effects Editors - Sandina Balio-Lape,

Teresa Eckton, Ken Fischer and David E. Stone

Assistant Sound Editors - Ewa Sztompke,

Bob Marty, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle,

E. Larry Oatfield, E. Jeane Putnam and

Kris Handwerk Wiskes

Sound Mixer: USA - Willie D. Burton

Re-Recording Mixers - Shawn Murphy

and Gary Summers

Foley Artists - Marnie Moore and

Dennie Thorpe

Music - John Williams

Music Editor - Kenneth Wannberg

Awards

1990 Academy Awards

Best Sound Editing - Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns (Won)

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Best Sound - Ben Burtt, Gary Summers,

Shawn Murphy and Tony Dawe (Nominated)

Best Original Score - John Williams (Nominated)


Review
Considered the second-best movie in the series, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE had a great story. The father-son relationship between the Joneses, Indiana and Henry, is heartwarming, and the Holy Grail is similar to the Monty Python movie. Coincidentally, this is the first movie that introduced me to Indiana Jones. I enjoyed the action and the humour with the performances of (James Bond actor) Sean Connery as Indiana's estranged father and River Phoenix as young Indiana. Two notable scenes include young Indy jumping on the rooftops of train cabins and falling into one, and to his shock, he finds a collection of vicious snakes. And the motorcycle chase scene is when Indy and his father, Henry, escape from the Nazis.

It was the last Indiana Jones movie until 2008's Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Overall, this is a must-see film. There have been talks of the fifth instalment of Indiana Jones.

Star rating: (5/5) Best Movie Ever

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