Synopsis :
The prologue depicts a young Indiana Jones in 1912 as a Boy Scout in Utah,
battling grave robbers for the Cross of Coronado (an ornamental cross belonging
to Francisco Vásquez de Coronado). As they give chase, Indiana hides
in a circus train, in the process using a whip, scarring his chin, and gaining
a fear of snakes. Although he rescues the cross, the robbers tell the Sheriff
that Indiana was the thief, and he is forced to return it, while his oblivious
father Henry is working on his research. The leader of the hired robbers, dressed
very similarly to the future Indiana, gives him his fedora with some encouraging
words. In 1938, an adult Indiana is on the robbers' ship, the Coronado, off
the Portuguese coast, finally retrieving the Cross and donating it to Marcus
Brody's museum.
Indiana meets the wealthy Walter Donovan, who informs him that Indy's father
vanished while searching for a clue to the location of the Holy Grail, using
an incomplete stone tablet as his guide. Indy receives a package which turns
out to be his father's Grail diary in which he recorded all his findings and
clues towards the Holy Grail. Understanding that his father would not have sent
the Grail Diary, his father's life's work, to him unless he was in trouble,
Indiana and Marcus travel to Venice. There they meet the beautiful and mysterious
Dr. Elsa Schneider who had been working with Indiana's father. Using clues in
Henry's diary, Indiana and Elsa search the ancient catacombs underneath the
library where Henry was last seen. The catacombs are filled with oil slicked
water several feet deep and infested with rats. Inside is the tomb of Sir Richard,
a knight of the First Crusade, whose shield holds a complete version of the
half-tablet which Henry Jones had found.
The Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword, a secretive and fanatical religious
cult that protects the Holy Grail, sets fire to the oil in the catacombs to
kill Indiana and Elsa. Indiana overturns Richard's sarcophagus so that he and
Elsa can take refuge underneath it from the flames, and emerge from a sewer
grate in Venice outside the library. Indiana and Elsa commandeer a motorboat
to escape, managing to fight off all but the cult's leader, Kazim, during the
ensuing chase. Jones convinces Kazim that he is looking for his father, not
the Grail, and Kazim reveals that his father is being held in a castle near
the Austrian-German border. Indiana finds his father, but they are betrayed
by Elsa and Donovan, who worked with the Nazis to stage Henry's kidnapping,
so that Indiana would solve the mystery of the Grail for them. Meanwhile, in
Iskenderun, Hatay, the Nazis capture Brody, to whom Indiana had given the map
for safekeeping.
Indiana and Henry are tied up, but escape and travel to Berlin to retrieve
Henry's diary, which contains the clues to evade three booby traps guarding
the Grail. At a Nazi book burning rally, a disguised Indiana corners Elsa and
forces her to return the diary to him. Indiana and Henry travel on a Zeppelin,
but Indy realizes the Nazis have caught up to them when the Zeppelin changes
course. They escape the ship by taking an attached fighter plane, evading Nazi
dogfighters. Henry accidentally shoots out the tailfin, and they crash land.
They steal a car, causing one Nazi plane to be destroyed when it follows them
through a tunnel. On a beach, Henry uses his umbrella to stir up a flock of
seagulls, which strike the second plane, crashing it. The Joneses meet up with
Sallah and confront the Nazis, who have captured Brody. The Brotherhood of the
Cruciform Sword also appears, attacking the Nazi caravan, but are defeated.
Henry attempts to rescue Brody from the tank wherein he is being held, but is
himself captured. Indiana jumps onto the tank and rescues the captives before
it drives off a cliff. The others believe Indiana is dead until he climbs back
up the cliff, where he emotionally reunites with his father.
- Cast : Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison
Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover, River Phoenix
- Studio/Banner : HMV
- Format : VCD
- Language : English
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