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DVD Features:
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: May 13, 2008
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Paramount
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Special Edition
- Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox - 1.85
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital Stereo - English
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Denholm Elliott & Paul Freeman | |
| Performer: | John Rhys-Davies, Alfred Molina & Ronald Lacey | |
| Directed by | Steven Spielberg | |
| Edited by | Michael Kahn | |
| Screenwriting by | Lawrence Kasdan | |
| Composition by | John Williams | |
| Story by | Philip Kaufman & George Lucas | |
| Produced by | Frank Marshall | |
| Director of Photography: | Douglas Slocombe | |
| Executive Production by | Howard Kazanjian & George Lucas |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes'"
- Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) to Sallah (John Rhys-Davies)
"I don't know. I'm making this up as I go."
- Jones to Sallah
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1981 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration
Academy Awards 1981 -
Best Film Editing
Academy Awards 1981 -
Best Sound
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Best Sound Effects Editing
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Best Visual Effects
Entertainment Reviews:
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The script Lawrence Kasdan constructed from Lucas and Philip Kaufman's original treatment built a real structure for those breathless set pieces, and populated it with characters that moved far beyond the cardboard cutouts of the originals.
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Flavorwire
Raiders of the Lost Ark has more size than substance but nevertheless it's a delightful special big surprise package of a movie that should turn Indiana Jones into a national figure.
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New York Daily News
...[A] fantasy-adventure....An exhilarating escapist entertainment....A vibrant and period-perfect world of wonders...
Variety
RAIDERS revived for a new generation the pure cinematic joy of action.
Premiere
There's not much to do but to sit and wait, laugh and let oneself be carried away by the dizzying array of images that will please all kinds of people. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 5/5 --
There is a charm and vitality to Raiders of the Ark, which Spielberg later admitted was "the first movie where I actually shot the movie without thinking".
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Raiders is an assured, relaxed, impressive work. It's almost impossible to resist. It's no more substantial than cotton candy -- but it's easily the best piece of entertainment Hollywood has produced in 1981.
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Boston Globe
Product Description:
Action-packed and adventure-filled, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK is director Steven Spielberg's loving homage to the Saturday matinee cliffhanger serials of his childhood. When the Allies discover the Nazis are planning to use the Lost Ark of the Covenant as a weapon, the U.S. government enlists archaeologist-adventurer Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) to locate the biblical treasure chest where the remains of the broken tablets of the Ten Commandments were placed. En route, Jones and his feisty ex-girlfriend, Marion (Karen Allen), must escape the clutches of evil Nazis, duplicitous "natives," and a nest of venomous snakes--not to mention the wrath of God. The groundbreaking special effects and furious, never-ending pace make for a stylish whirlwind of a movie, topped off with a fabulous sense of humor. This bare-knuckled, barnstorming, pot-boiling, eye-popping bucket of Technicolor popcorn became Paramount Pictures' highest-grossing film, and deservedly so--RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK is quite simple one of the most enjoyable movies ever made.
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Production Notes:
- Theatrical release: June 12, 1981.
- The film was shot in France, Tunisia, Hawaii, and at EMI Elstree Studios in England.
- RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK is number 60 on the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 GREATEST MOVIES.
- RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1999.
- Tom Selleck was originally cast as Indiana Jones but was committed to his MAGNUM, P.I. television series.
- The film grossed more than $240 million at the domestic box office and more than $380 million worldwide.
- Spielberg wanted to redeem himself after the excessive budget and shooting difficulties of his previous film, 1941, which was a box-office flop. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK was completed under its budget of $20.4 million and exactly on schedule. Executive producer George Lucas, who had originally created the story idea of a heroic soldier of fortune, directed some second-unit footage in Tunisia.
- Two successful sequels followed: INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM and INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.
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- UPC: 097361328249
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