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In the year 1981, a classic action-adventure directed by Steven Spielberg, showing Indiana Jones retrieving the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can use its power. Jones journeys through Cairo, jungles of Peru and Egypt, culminating in the Well of the Souls and the final testing scene on a remote island where the Ark is opened. Harrison Ford stars as Indiana Jones, with Marion Ravenwood and Paul Freeman as René Belloq, plus John Rhys-Davies. Kasdan wrote the script, and it spurred a franchise that grew into sequels, novels, and games. Its blend of archaeology, adventure, and pulpy thrills is notable, and for popularizing iconography like the golden idol, the Staff of Ra, and the Well of Souls that recurs in later films.

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Jones and Sallah realize that the Nazis are digging in the wrong location, infiltrate the Nazi dig site, and use the medallion and the correctly sized staff of Ra to locate the Well of Souls, the Ark's resting place. The pair recover the Ark, a golden, intricately decorated chest, but Belloq and the Nazis discover them and seize it. Jones and Marion, whom Belloq has been holding captive, are sealed inside the well, but the pair escape and Jones captures a truck carrying the Ark. … On the...

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Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas a...

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