Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Academy Award × 1·National Film Registry
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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!
What critics thought
Audiences embraced it warmly and most critics found it an entertaining return to the lighter spirit of Raiders, with the Ford–Connery father-son dynamic drawing particular notice. But a notable cluster of prominent critics — Sarris, Denby, Kauffmann, Brown, and Rosenbaum among them — dismissed or panned it outright, and even some favorable reviews noted it fell short of its predecessors in pacing and novelty. The sharpest disagreement centered on whether exploring Jones's backstory and family relationship deepened the film or simply stripped away the character's mystique.
“Though it seems to have the manner of some magically reconstituted B-movie of an earlier era, The Last Crusade is an endearing original”
Vincent Canby·The New York Times
“nearly all chases and dull exposition”
Hal Hinson·The Washington Post
“lacks the novelty of Raiders, and the breathless pacing of Temple of Doom, it was an entertaining capper to the trilogy”
Jay Boyar·Orlando Sentinel
“the wildest and wittiest Indy of them all”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
Genres
Action, Adventure
Cast & Crew
DirectorSteven Spielberg
StarringHarrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies
ComposerJohn Williams
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Academy Award × 1·National Film Registry
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!
What critics thought
Audiences embraced it warmly and most critics found it an entertaining return to the lighter spirit of Raiders, with the Ford–Connery father-son dynamic drawing particular notice. But a notable cluster of prominent critics — Sarris, Denby, Kauffmann, Brown, and Rosenbaum among them — dismissed or panned it outright, and even some favorable reviews noted it fell short of its predecessors in pacing and novelty. The sharpest disagreement centered on whether exploring Jones's backstory and family relationship deepened the film or simply stripped away the character's mystique.
“Though it seems to have the manner of some magically reconstituted B-movie of an earlier era, The Last Crusade is an endearing original”
Vincent Canby·The New York Times
“nearly all chases and dull exposition”
Hal Hinson·The Washington Post
“lacks the novelty of Raiders, and the breathless pacing of Temple of Doom, it was an entertaining capper to the trilogy”
Jay Boyar·Orlando Sentinel
“the wildest and wittiest Indy of them all”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
Genres
Action, Adventure
Cast & Crew
DirectorSteven Spielberg
StarringHarrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies
ComposerJohn Williams
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