That year, the MPAA decided an R rating would be too harsh for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, even though the film’s tones and imagery were far more disturbing than the 1981 Harrison Ford ...

This puts it ahead of the $179 million that Temple of Doom concluded its run with in 1984. Of course, were these numbers to be adjusted for inflation, Temple of Doom would still be in the lead.

“When we shot this sequence, I was so scared,” Quan said of a sequence where Ford’s Indiana Jones helps his character, Short Round, escape from the Temple of Doom. “And I cried.