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"Raiders of the Lost Ark"

introduced Indiana Jones to the world.

The audience screams and goes crazy.

Harrison Ford had taken a gun to a knife fight

and came out smelling of roses.

Yes, you're a man of many talents.

Harrison Ford had a launchpad

and promptly jumped into the future.

I'm Deckard, Blade Runner.

Only to go backwards.

People didn't really understand it.

You people wouldn't believe.

Not merely futuristic,

"Blade Runner" proved to be ahead of its time,

ahead of the critics, and ahead of its audience.

Sort of bombed.

I was devastated.

Embarrassing.

George Lucas's next project

was to span a decade...

He wasn't gonna do anything for 10 years.

...of sweet nothing.

What the...?

Lucas was shutting down.

He asked me to shut the production office down, which I did.

What am I doing here?

He says, "We're doing nothing."

I have a very bad feeling about this.

Much like "Star Wars,"

George conceived "Indiana Jones" as a trilogy.

We know there's going to be three "Indiana Jones" pictures

'cause George has said that.

But was Harrison Ford on the same page?

Harrison has some questions.

Having shut down Lucasfilm

for the foreseeable future...

It's hard when part of the team leaves.

Of course it is.

Next "Indiana Jones" film

would have to find a new home.

We think we can handle anything, don't we?

And a new voice.

Let me die.

It became a controversy.

But was Indy still speaking the same language?

Exhibitors are calling saying,

"Kids are peeing in their seats."

Following the explosion

of a bomb called "Blade Runner,"

Harrison Ford's career appeared to suffer collateral damage.

I said, "If you had three words,

how would you describe your experience on 'Blade Runner'?"

And Harrison Ford said, "A total bitch."

While Harrison was dying at the box office...

Finish.

Steven Spielberg's career

also had a brush with death.

All three were killed

when a helicopter crashed, knocked out of control by debris

from a special effects explosion.

John Landis was sued

over the "Twilight Zone" accident.

Kick the can.

And Spielberg's contribution

to the same movie was panned.

Oh my God.

George Lucas's problems were more offscreen

and definitely off script.

They were always around together.

So I guess when the news broke,

everybody was pretty sad about it.

Marcia and George had told stories together.

Someone who loves you.

All the while writing their own fairy tales.

They were madly in love with each other.

They were a team.

They were a pair.

Big surprise.

Now the story was ending.

I think he told people that I had an affair.

It wasn't true.

When I left George, he was very angry.

He didn't want this separation or the divorce,

and he never much validated anything I ever did.

That's all I'm gonna say about George

'cause he is a brilliant film director.

He's wonderful.

But the bond between George Lucas

and Steven Spielberg seemed as unshakable

as it was lucrative.

They understood each other.

They understood the challenges of everything

from story to production.

No friction whatsoever.

Once you direct a movie

and somebody else directs a movie, there's an instant bond.

But it is so hard to do.

So hard, Lucas now preferred

not to sit in the director's chair.

George, more so when he was younger,

he was very shy and he found it hard

to talk to actors and so forth.

Almost an introvert,

doesn't like to communicate with people,

even the people who work for him.

George is more cerebral,

and Steven has a very intuitive sense.

And I think they get along well

because they're opposites.

In Spielberg, Lucas had an ally

to embody the director he no longer wanted to be.

They both completely can make an audience come to them.

Producing the picture

that would bring in the next audience now fell to Steven.

With Lucasfilm in hibernation,

Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment

took the reins for Indy's next adventure.

Our small company, we weren't Paramount,

we weren't Universal, we were Lucasfilm and Amblin.

Returning executives

included producer Frank "Dr. Fantasy" Marshall.

Frank had been a location manager.

And Kathleen Kennedy, both on the up.

Kathleen had started as a PA.

Kathy was Steven's assistant on the first one.

And she was so good, Steven relied on her so much

she then, you know, became an associate producer.

Kathleen and Frank, they were a positive duo.

They understood exactly what was going on.

The story for the second film

would be very different.

It would have to be,

following the departure of writer, Lawrence Kasdan.

I think he'd had enough.

But the screenwriting life

was only getting richer for another writer

whose career stretched back all the way

to Lucas's earliest days.

I met George in film school at USC.

Willard was one half of a partnership

destined to write for a-listers,

but it all began with a B movie.

You talk too much.

Roger Corman was showing a rough cut of "Wild Angels."

A friend of mine, he knew Gloria

and she had just returned from a trip to Europe

and was wearing one of the first miniskirts

I'd ever seen.

So I fell in love immediately.

Willard and Gloria

would go on to deliver George a hit.

You'll be hanging on for mercy

when I get this sucker rolling.

Scripting "American Graffiti."

We were the only writers

he knew in Hollywood, I think.

But the second "Indiana Jones" movie

was not moving forward yet.

Decisions were made.

Because it was moving backwards first.

He didn't want to do Nazis again.

I don't know, I think they were bored with that--.

Bored by Nazis too,

the next "Indiana Jones" would need new villains

to go with its new setting on a different continent.

Oh, where are we anyway?

Gloria and I were art collectors

and we collect a lot of Indian stuff.

George heard "Indian" and he said,

"I'd like to set this in India."

He has brought you here.

It became a prequel.

Set in the '30s before the first film,

but not for the reasons you might think.

Because of the films we love from that era.

We always considered the golden years.

And George thought it would be cool

to have 1930s cars instead of '60s cars.

Spielberg had an idea

that could not have been more old Hollywood.

Steven always wanted to do a dance number.

He wanted to do a musical.

He wanted to do a nightclub scene.

The golden era feel

called for a new golden girl.

They also wanted the heroine to be different

than Ravenwood in the first one.

They wanted her to be a Jean Harlow kind of ditz.

I've told you a million times

not to talk to me when I'm doing my lashes.

So they made her as obnoxious and silly as possible.

Wait a second! Indy!

Which they overdid.

This is Willie Scott.

The name continued an unlikely arms race

that started on "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

Indiana.

It started because Indiana was George's dog.

And then Steven said, "Well I want to name the girl...

Willie, Willie.

"After my dog, Willie."

So Willard figured it was his turn.

We had a dog who was named after a Korean kid

who was in a film called "Steel Helmet."

I ain't got no chocolate, Short Round.

It's a short round of ammunition

that doesn't fire properly.

And that canine connection

brought us the character of...

Short Round.

But the script still had no teeth.

Well yeah, we had no story.

It was just us and George and Steve sitting by the pool

naming characters after our dogs,

trying to figure out what the story meant.

They had an idea, I don't know if it was George or Steven,

about Indy doing something good for kids.

He says they stole their children.

And so we had to work kids in a Byzantine way

where they were looking for the Sankara Stones.

So that's what you've got these slaves

digging for, huh?

Just like George,

Steven was also reeling from a breakup of his own

between him and music executive, Kathleen Carey.

Could not have been easy on those two guys.

They were ready to push boundaries

like never before.

Maybe if Marcia was there, it might have been less darker.

But the presence of children

wasn't going to lighten the mood for two writers

encouraged to put more crack in Indy's whip.

At one point it was "Temple of Death,"

but they decided that was even worse.

So it was the "Temple of Doom."

So the sequel, which was actually a prequel...

This is Indiana Jones.

...needed to be fresh.

So what are you supposed to be, a lion tamer?

It was set to be more classical in parts.

Lighter on one note.

But darker overall.

And yet suitable for kids on screen and off.

That wasn't so bad, was it?

Not to mention a rip-roaring action adventure.

We knew Indy had to be after something.

It's a stone, a sacred stone.

And we knew we needed the bad guys.

Of course, bad guys.

But believe it or not,

they still hadn't confirmed their good guy.

Well, the big thing there was we had to have it done fast

or Harrison wasn't gonna do it.

I suggest you give me what you owe me,

or anything goes.

From two or three days, we just wrote the first draft.

But with a script that was strictly a WIP

and not yet one with any crack...

Put him down!

Could Harrison Ford even be convinced

to don the fedora again?

First of all, George made a terrible tactical error.

George Lucas decided the way to find out

was to crack the whip himself.

He's not the most polite.

We were at dinner and he threw down this script

and said, "Here's your next movie, Harrison."

I think Harrison was a little upset.

Writers Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz

had a script their producers were happy with.

But there was someone else

George and Steven needed to convince.

He threw down this script and said,

"Here's your next movie, Harrison."

They were both very nervous about Harrison

because, you know, Harrison's like a real guy.

Meaning, he was not afraid

to ask uncomfortable questions.

When we wrote the first draft,

we were told that Harrison has some questions.

Despite a terse exchange

with George Lucas over dinner...

They didn't wanna lose him.

Harrison Ford was lined up

- for "The Temple of Doom." - Stop.

And for the casting director,

finding the leading lady meant revisiting a face

she'd admired in past roles.

I had just seen Kate Capshaw in this movie

called "The Windy City,"

and I thought she had a lot of spark.

Dear God, there's gotta be

some old fashioned men out there.

She came in and she was just utterly delightful.

There's just sun rays coming out of her.

What Marci had picked up on

was going to change not only Spielberg's movie...

Oh, Indy.

But his life.

Steven fell for her for the role

and for life at that moment.

Just when my career is starting to pay off, you come along.

I really saw a spark there.

Mr. Spielberg, how does it feel directing a musical?

Well, it feels just swell.

You know, sometimes you do.

And I saw a spark there between the director and the actor.

Like Lucas,

Steven was in the middle of a breakup

and it would leave its mark on the story ahead.

While that casting decision

seemed to be written in the stars...

I put together an open call in Los Angeles

for the role of Short Round.

...Marci was looking to create a new star.

We had been around the world, quite honestly,

searching for this kid.

We were seeing hundreds of kids.

But I'm looking at the kid

who wasn't coming that day to audition.

12-year-old Ke Huy Quan.

I said, "Why don't you come in and do it also?"

And he's like, "No, I'm fine."

You know, he just, it wasn't why he was there.

He was there to support his brother.

And so I talked Ke Huy Quan into auditioning.

He wasn't nervous, but he couldn't really read that well.

And so we just started talking to him.

And in my head I'm going, "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God."

He was mischievous.

He started talking to Harrison

and Steven had them do an improvisation playing cards.

And Harrison is cheating and putting cards up his sleeve.

You cheat! Pay money!

- Are you saying that I cheated? - Yes!

And instinctually, Ke just knew to call him on it

and be really mad,

and be really forceful about, "You're a cheater."

Can you prove I cheated?

Yes, I saw it!

You saw what?

I saw you just put a hand in there.

The youngster's improvisation

was so impressive it had to be good

for more than a mere audition.

The scene ended up ultimately in the movie.

No mistake! Mistake?

I'm very little!

You cheat very big!

I think I'm very lucky.

And I'm number seven in my family.

That's a lucky number.

And for the dark priest, Mola Ram,

Spielberg and Lucas found their perfect choice

in Indian actor Amrish Puri.

You don't believe me?

With the "Temple of Doom" cast coming together,

everything was falling into place until...

I think we got a big problem.

...Willard received a call from George Lucas.

He said, "We have trouble.

We're not gonna be able to shoot in India."

The Indian authorities objected

to the film's fanciful depictions of human sacrifice.

Some poor guy barbecued.

And black magic.

Refusing permission to shoot in the country.

So they shot the movie in Sri Lanka instead.

And so production began

in Sri Lanka in April of 1983.

And the heartbreak of both Steven and George

would immediately leave its mark on the film.

Could not have been easy on those two guys.

Willard got to keep his favorite lines.

My favorite line, which I will take credit for, was...

You're not eating?

Where she says, "No, thank you."

I had bugs for lunch.

It was a good line,

but the scene needed more than gore.

See? Surprise.

And they realized, and so they said,

"Shoot, we need an insert of somebody eating the eels."

And they said, "You wanna do that?"

I went, "Heck, yeah!"

They got Caecilian worms from a fish shop.

And here I am still talking about it

decades later.

And the film's edgier tone

wasn't just on screen, it carried behind the scenes too.

We got company!

The mine car stunt...

Indy!

Incredibly complicated.

They finally came out onto the cliff face,

water shooting out next to them.

Which certainly looked precarious,

but it was not when Harrison Ford

really needed to watch his step.

And suddenly there's the bridge.

And now we're in another gigantic sequence.

That came when Steadicam operator,

Garrett Brown, and Harrison met on a bridge

for an intimate near death experience.

This is a business like warfare.

You have a job to do and there are occasionally hazards.

And on this occasion,

the hazard was about 60 yards of rope, wood, and wire

hanging over a raging river.

There's a famous gorge that had been used

on "Bridge on the River Kwai."

A sense of history is not the main reason

the crew found themselves on the same river.

They picked it partly because of its proximity

to a giant company that was building a dam

just up the river.

ILM was back for "Temple of Doom,"

but a stunt like this went beyond their bag of tricks.

The engineers from the dam helped our special effects guys

build the rope bridge, put the two cables across

that supported it.

When I first saw the thing,

there were spaces between the boards

as big as the boards themselves.

The engineers built a bridge

perfect for Spielberg's high wire set piece,

but not perfect for his acute vertigo.

Come on! Let's go!

He was not happy about being on the bridge.

Real scary.

It's very bouncy, Steve.

Very bouncy.

There was a lot of shouting from the sidelines.

Come on!

But the catch was,

which the other guys didn't know from the dam,

was the special effects guy had to put exploding bolts

in the wire,

because at some point it had to break, didn't it?

But exploding bolts

was not what made the scene so dangerous

for its leading man.

Harrison's weight,

and I'm guessing he might have weighed 210 at that point.

I weighed, probably accumulated 240 or 50 with the gear.

You know, those thin looking boards,

it wasn't trivial to either one of us to run on that bridge.

And it wasn't a trivial matter

when the scene in the film came true for Harrison Ford.

Oh, shit.

Not that part.

Something dangerously similar that wasn't in the script.

Steadicam operator Garrett Brown

was filming Harrison Ford standing on a flimsy wire bridge

over a raging river...

I'm amazed I'm still alive.

...when Harrison Ford's life almost imitated art

as it flashed in front of him.

The board broke, his leg went down through the gap.

Harrison apparently just decided to ignore it.

He was acting all the way down to the crotch

and I was shooting.

You go into a sort of self-protective mode,

but you're also in the middle of doing a job.

And that's the shot, Garrett!

As was Harrison.

Until the word "cut" appears,

that might turn out to be something.

They might use it in the movie.

You know, I could almost see it on his face.

I'm sure Steven, was first of all, embarrassed

because Harrison had said, "Is it safe?"

And Steven had said, "Yes, it's perfectly safe."

Now, the director had to prove that

to his leading man.

We watched the heaviest grips they had jump on the boards

and then kaboom.

We went back to work.

Which meant they could shoot for show

what nearly happened for real.

Alright, here we go.

And this time it was controlled.

- Exploding bolts. - Mostly.

We weren't too sure when the exploding bolts

- were gonna work. - Action!

Hang on, lady. We going for a ride.

Oh! What are you doing?

But they did perfectly.

And the whole thing fell.

But don't worry.

There wasn't anybody physically on the bridge.

They were all dummies.

But not your average dummies,

slightly smarter ones.

You'll notice some arms and legs moving

of some of the dummies that are falling.

'Cause they'd made six of these animatronic dummies.

Harrison dodged one disaster.

I've got some good news and I've got some bad news.

But another was waiting just around the corner.

He hurt himself badly.

He hurt himself to the point where he was really in pain.

Good news is Harrison Ford is fine.

A herniated disc inflicted

during the shooting of this fight scene

brought shooting to a halt.

And the bad news is,

he needs until August 8th to get back into shape.

The injury required surgery in L.A.

For Steven, it's hard.

Everything has to be rescheduled.

You try to shoot around a person as long as you can.

But really,

this might've been a long time coming.

I think a lot of what he did

would've hurt anybody's back, you know?

It was extremely athletic.

Spielberg was helped by the fact

Harrison's stunt double...

The double we had for him was a guy called Vic Armstrong.

...was exactly what a director needs

a stunt double to be.

The spitting image of Harrison.

You could shoot a scene with Vic

and you're convinced it's Harrison.

So it didn't affect us much.

Despite losing six weeks with Harrison...

Steven braved through it.

That was great, but my heart stopped.

...and managed to finish the film.

Principal photography on "The Temple of Doom"

wrapped in September of 1983.

And for once, Spielberg wasn't making headlines

for going over budget.

"1941" was a catastrophe for going over budget.

"Temple of Doom" was shot on schedule

and on its $28 million price tag.

There was great anticipation for the second Indy movie.

Great anticipation.

Following the success

of George Lucas's last trilogy,

the global box office

had become a greater priority for studios.

Japan, very important market.

Huge market for "Star Wars,"

but not such a great market for "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

It turned out Paramount

really needed to tip their hat to Japanese moviegoers.

We learned from our folks in Japan

that part of the reason is the moviegoers,

- believe it or not... - Here.

Didn't want to see a guy wearing a hat.

So for "Temple of Doom,"

we took his hat off.

But before going into release,

Paramount discovered they had problems

simple marketing tricks alone couldn't fix.

Gloria and I, we got a call from the head of the studio

and he says, "You've gotta talk to George and Steve.

I can't talk to them, they won't talk to me."

The studio wanted Willard

to convince Spielberg and Lucas to lighten up, seriously.

Michael Eisner, he says, "This movie's very dark."

And we said, "Yes, it was supposed to be."

This wasn't just a matter of degrees

for the studio.

He said, "They've been doing some sneak previews,

and I've got exhibitors are calling saying,

'Kids are peeing in their seats'."

You know, I passed that along to them.

George and Steven's response?

"We'll fix it in post" without changing a thing.

They didn't particularly care,

but they also said,

"Well John Williams' music will cover it.

It'll be less gruesome when the music's in."

It would have to be truly hypnotizing music

to temper the horror of a scene like this.

Because after all the heartbreak behind the scenes...

Could not have been easy on those two guys.

Even John Williams can only do so much.

I think "Temple of Doom" was too down a film.

My general feeling was a down.

This was an issue that went beyond taste.

It was the last thing Paramount needed,

just as they hoped to expand the appeal of the franchise.

Indy was such a popular character at that point

that little kids couldn't wait to get into the theater.

And they were faced with a little bit of heaviness.

That heaviness was about to weigh

on the entire U.S. film industry

because Harrison Ford wasn't the only heart throb

in "The Temple of Doom."

The film unwittingly staked out new theatrical ground.

Let me die.

It became a controversy.

It was so cartoonish

that we didn't think anybody would take it that seriously.

You dare not do that.

But it was the censor's job

to take it seriously.

And "The Temple of Doom" was so dark,

they were lost in the dark

when it came to what certification to put on the film.

And after Spielberg went directly to the MPAA,

the film classification and rating administration

invented a brand new rating, the PG-13.

It's the first movie ever with a PG-13.

And the idea of parental guidance was born.

It was all thanks to Willard and Gloria's dark imagination.

It's funny, when you're writing it,

it's amusing to be darker and darker.

When you see it, you go,

"Oh my God, it's really dark."

Fans waited in line all night

to be the first to see

"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom."

The first reaction to the film was not good.

It wasn't like "Raiders."

It wasn't as good.

Despite the blood and the gore...

It wasn't that violent.

It's all in fun, I think.

Or maybe because of it.

I was really an exciting experience.

And I plan on seeing it again.

The eyeballs in the soup

didn't prevent eyeballs on the movie.

I've already seen it twice.

And this time, Japanese audiences

seemed to have gotten over the fedora phobia.

In Japan, the movie did much, much, much better.

"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"

grossed $179 million domestically

on a budget of nearly 28 million.

Yes, we made a lot of money off of it.

But the sequel fell short

of the original film's box office,

not a trend the studio wanted to see continue.

One to go to complete the trilogy.

Two down, one to go.

Of course, that was plan A.

But having taken Harrison Ford to the edge of darkness,

producers were acutely aware of the old Hollywood maxim--

You're only as good as your last picture.

proved to be doomed, with Jonthe critics at least... om"

Boo.

Harrison Ford blazed on bearing witness...

It's over, enough!

To a series of films

that were a long way from action adventure in a fedora.

But there was no question he was now a leading man.

Melanie Griffith certainly thought so in "Working Girl."

I wanted an ace on this, the best.

Mm-hmm.

But a script for the next "Indiana Jones" movie

was being shaped by writer Christopher Columbus.

Steven, he wasn't that into the "Monkey King."

The "Monkey King"

was the working title of "Indiana Three."

Menno was invited to pick up the project.

I had been working with Steve

and I did "The Color Purple" with him.

Menno had an idea for a new adventure

that recalled "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

The Ark of the Covenant.

Are you sure? Pretty sure.

Kind of like the Christian version.

I had the idea of the Grail

because it was a kind of sideways move.

The Grail, you ask?

The Holy Grail, Dr. Jones.

The chalice used by Christ during the Last Supper.

Yep.

Who wouldn't want to drink from that cup?

George has a big library

and he's a very knowledgeable guy.

And he also knew the Nazis got really overexcited

about the Grail and the Spear of Destiny

and all of this mad stuff, you know?

So the evil relic-hunting Nazis were back.

But what would be Indy's motivation

to go after the same prize?

I didn't come for the cup of Christ.

I came to find my father.

It's the first time we see Indiana Jones

in a real emotional relationship.

It is you, Junior!

This is absolutely the heart of the film.

It's a father and son film.

You have chosen wisely.

Speaking of wise choices,

finding the right man to play Indie's dad?

Well, that seemed almost preordained.

We immediately said, "Oh well, that's Sean Connery!"

There was near total consensus.

As much as everybody just looks at him as...

Bond.

James Bond.

He's done a lot of brilliant work

in other movies, playing other characters.

Yeah, try and get him on the phone.

Forget it.

Because since retiring as 007,

Sean had become one of the busiest stars in Hollywood,

from a police officer with his own fatherly advice.

He pulls a knife, you pull a gun.

He sends one of yours to the hospital,

you send him one of his to the morgue.

To well, less renowned work.

When someone finally did get Sean on the horn--

Then it was just like Sean Connery,

"Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, done, yeah, he's in."

You gotta admit that Steven does amazing casting.

It was perfect.

Connery signed on with great expectations.

With Sean Connery, you know that there's gonna be a great

back and forth and great repartee.

- Dad. - What?

- Dad! - What?

This being a family affair...

...the third "Indiana Jones" picture

would also need someone to play a...

Junior!

How am I doing, boy?

And Harrison Ford had already met just the kid.

In fact, he'd already played dad

to the rising star River Phoenix in "The Mosquito Coast."

I thought it was brilliant casting.

I could see it right away.

And obviously Steven did too.

'Cause he was really an amazing kid, number one,

and actor, number two.

It belongs in a museum.

And to play opposite Ford

for Indy's other key relationship,

another page from the book of Bond.

I'm an early riser myself.

I played a bond girl in Roger Moore's...

♪ A view to a kill ♪

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas interviewed me

and asked me if I was frightened of rats.

And I told them that I had no fear

of the four-legged rat, only the two.

And they said that there'd be no two-legged rats

working on the movie.

Except for, of course, the villain in the movie

who almost cast himself after a chat with his neighbor.

I lived right next door to Robert Watts,

the executive producer of "Star Wars."

And one afternoon we were in the garden

talking across the fence like you do when you're neighbors.

I just propped the question of,

"What are you doing at the moment?"

And he said, "I'm making the second "Star Wars" movie.

"Do you want to be in it?"

Wow!

Thanks in part to Lucas's propensity

to cast Brits as baddies.

He felt surprise was wiser.

He's as clumsy as he is stupid.

When it came to "Indiana Jones,"

he was the executive producer on that too.

And he got me the interview for the Nazi officer.

And I didn't get it.

This is how we say goodbye in Germany.

You win some, you lose some.

Well my agent rang and said,

"Sorry you didn't get that, Julian."

And then you win some.

"Do you want to play Walter Donovan?"

I said, "Well, you mean the baddy?"

He said, "Yes, they want you for that."

That's how I got it.

To play the role of Kazim,

Kevork Malikyan was cast by Spielberg, partly on his looks.

He said, you know, "Can I ask you, Kevorkian,

has anyone told you before

that your face is a combination of Robert De Niro,

Al Pacino, and Dustin Hoffman?"

I really--

I absolutely didn't know what to say.

But Kevork didn't have to say anything.

In that case, God be with you in your quest.

With the cast locked in,

the only unknown was whether Harrison Ford

would find himself operating in the shadow

of his legendary costar.

I came here to save you!

Oh yeah?

And who's gonna come to save you?

Oh my goodness.

I was shocked.

When shooting on

"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" began in May of 1988...

How dare you kiss me?

The onscreen chemistry was electric.

- They'll kill us! - I know, Dad!

Between the two male leads, that is.

And I used to say it to Sean, "You've got my part

because you're having so many scenes with Harrison."

I think the reason that this movie worked as well

was because of their relationship on screen

and their chemistry.

What do you wanna talk about?

It's interesting to see him with Sean though,

because Sean's quite serious.

When Sean's on the set, everybody lifts their game.

This is a new experience for me.

I think this was the first time they met.

And the camaraderie between the two of them, incredible.

It's just like they had been father and son for years.

Five minutes would've been enough.

Known for his ad-libs...

I love you.

I know.

That was one.

Harrison had met his match.

Junior?

The scene when I am discovered to be Mr. Baddy.

Didn't I warn you not to trust anybody, Dr. Jones?

And Harrison said...

How did you know she was a Nazi?

Well, I don't know what was in the original script.

Sean just said...

She talks in her sleep.

And that just broke us all up.

The whole of the set started to erupt in laughter.

He completely invented that line and did it.

And of course Spielberg says that's in.

God, it took us five minutes to recover.

Harrison Ford, now in his element,

even alongside his legendary costar,

allowed the comedy to spill off the screen too.

People really know what they're doing.

Harrison's very private.

He's not a joke teller,

but he's one of those who makes a remark

out of the corner of his mouth.

Very under, and you never know when it's gonna come.

So he was very good company on that level.

And then this is just after the tank explodes,

you make a hard...

But there was no horsing around

for one of the movie's key action scenes,

involving tanks and horses

and the grinding dust of North Africa.

Just another day at the office.

But not just another day at the office

for Julian Glover.

When I read the script for that,

I thought I'm going to achieve my lifetime ambition,

which is to be like General Rommel in World War II

at the top of a tank going...

And I got that wish.

I got to do a Rommel.

Not that Jones!

The other Jones!

Some actors on "The Last Crusade"

found their work to be unexpectedly physical.

Vernon Dobtcheff got to say a line

that would become the most quoted of his 200+ films.

If you are a Scottish Lord,

then I am Mickey Mouse!

Steven said to Harrison,

"I want you to punch him at the end of the line."

And I slid down the wall, and that was that.

But in Vernon,

Spielberg had seen something hiding in plain sight,

he felt was perfect for the scene.

There was a case for an Egyptian mummy.

He put me in profile like that.

And that was the gag, you see?

He just wanted the nose.

It seemed like every actor

was making an impression and I was given a chance

to make an even bigger one.

One I wasn't expecting.

Steven said, "Alison, get into the boat

and drive it straight towards the boat

with the camera on it."

I hear "action" and I'm zooming.

And they're saying, "Now, before you get too close,

veer off to the right."

Are you crazy?

You don't go between 'em!

Go between them? Are you crazy?

This was the worst possible time

to get starstruck.

I started to get hypnotized

seeing all of these famous faces.

"Oh, there's Steven.

Oh, there's George."

I could see their faces.

They were going...

That way.

I said, "Go around!"

I went, "Oh."

And I just turned the boat very quickly.

It was harrowing for them,

but in the end it was a good scene.

We went to the back of the studio,

huge pool, which was supposed to be the river.

They used stunts for me, not for Harrison Ford.

He did all his stunts himself.

In the same scene,

Harrison was looking out for his co-stars.

It was a horribly cold day.

And somebody brought in a coffee with brandy in it.

He said, "Excuse me, where's Kevork?

Where's Kevork's drink?"

So they brought me a brandy.

So, Dr. Jones, it's yours.

Kevork got his coffee,

but he wasn't getting any extra

when it came to what he was there for.

George Lucas came to me and he said,

"You know, Kevork, in the original story,

your character was going to Petra,

but we decided to kill you from,

to kill your character.

So you will not be coming to Petra."

For the unrighteous.

If I hadn't been killed by the Germans,

I would've appeared till the end of the film,

I suppose, in the original story.

Julian Glover's character's demise...

It's very interesting, that death scene.

Required more finesse.

We spent a very long time beforehand.

And a little bit of ILM genius behind it

as practical as it was inspired.

They made a death mask of me out of Plaster of Paris.

I had wires going down my back, up my front.

A very elaborate two day shoot.

What is happening to me?

Right near the beginning, my hair grows!

And that of course was such simple device,

which Steven invented.

There was a man in front of me

and he held onto the front of the hair

and pulled it like that, and it went shoop, like that.

And they shot it in reverse.

I had to scream backwards

from my maximum scream of fear

down to my just starting to scream.

It's the most difficult scene for me in the whole movie.

I thankfully did it well

and well enough for Harrison to come over to me

and say, "Are you okay?"

I went, "Yes, I'm acting."

We have got it.

Come on!

But sadly, not acting for as long as I had hoped.

I was really annoyed reading in the script

that my character was going to die

because I wanted to come back in the next "Indiana Jones."

Honey, I can't hold you!

I can reach it.

Steven goes, "Action."

I fall, I scream.

I hear Steven saying, "And cut."

I went, "It's okay.

I'm alive.

I had a soft landing just come down and get me."

And Steven kept saying, "You're dead."

"You're dead."

I said, "No, no, no, no.

Could you not just leave her with one finger moving

with the possibility--?"

And he said, "No, you're dead."

Let it go.

But with production nearly wrapped,

the toughest tests were still waiting in the wings.

What does that mean?

There was no CG.

We didn't have computers.

The biggest challenge

finishing "The Last Crusade..."

Why are you sitting there resting

when we're so near the end?

...was taking the massive

and making it small...

So it was a blimp miniature.

...in order to make it big.

And a miniature biplane when it detaches

and then flies off, was a white blimp on a blue sky,

which is the enemy of visual effects.

That was the challenge.

And none of this was helped

by the reality of filmmaking 40 years ago.

The entire film was made with models and miniatures

and real explosions.

And there was no CG.

But we didn't have computers.

You know, we didn't have CG.

Which made shooting

as much action as possible crucial,

even if some of it we would never get to see.

Do you know about the Zeppelin business?

Such as a spectacular dogfight

that originally featured a bigger dog.

What they had originally was a German officer,

which Indiana Jones took on.

And they shot the whole sequence and then they cut it.

But that's what happens with movies, isn't it?

Hang on, Dad, we're going in.

Believing the dogfight

dragged down the story's momentum,

Spielberg clipped the scene's wings.

Spielberg discovered he had come up short,

but only after location shooting wrapped.

We shot that motorcycle chase scene

in San Anselmo. Post-production.

It was a U.S. unit.

Brilliant sequence, brilliant sequence.

Certain directors a studio demands a screening or two

or three or four and then gives their notes.

But Steven and George were at the level of,

"Here's my movie, I hope you like it."

"Indiana Jones."

"The Last Crusade" hit theaters in May of 1989.

- Nice landing. - Thanks.

It landed at an unusual time

with its spring release, but was universally embraced.

I was absolutely happy with what I'd done

'cause I knew that's what Steven wanted.

It's more beautiful than I'd ever imagined.

It just has everything.

Looks like the best parts have already been spoken for.

It's got the amazing action and adventure.

The film had risen to the top

with fans and cast alike.

It's like being with a friend

and joining him on a journey.

Sharing your adventures.

"The Last Crusade"

netted almost 475 million worldwide

from the budget of just 48 million,

becoming the highest grossing film of the original trilogy.

And I'm pleased that other people like it.

I'm pleased it's been successful.

And its reception

couldn't have been further from the shadow

cast by "Temple of Doom."

Sweetheart, after all the fun we've had together.

The franchise that began in old Hollywood

had embedded a new star in the firmament.

I think Steven was very lucky

to have Harrison all the way through.

I thought I'd lost you, boy.

You know, having looked at him closely in that period,

he has a relaxed "don't give a fuck" quality about him.

There's something about that

that is extremely appealing.

I owe you a gin.

Let's not forget

the people Harrison brought up with him.

Indy, my friend.

Ke Huy Quan, to see him now all these years later,

and then to get the Oscar.

And the Oscar goes to Ke Huy Quan.

That thrills me so much.

He had become a man of action,

but to grow as an actor,

he needed to add another feather to his fedora.

Harrison's combination of action star and thinking man

made him a perfect Jack Ryan.

The former carpenter

who just a few years earlier didn't know Jack...

I didn't even know how long it took to bake a potato.

Was about to show the world

he could be a jack of all trades.

How dare you come in here and lecture me?

How dare you, sir?