The movie, 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, was very much modeled on adventure serials of the 1930s and 1940s — short movies in which our hero would get into major peril and all would seem to ...

Casting Raiders of the Lost Ark ’s hero was the next step, and Steven Spielberg, after seeing The Empire Strikes Back, suggested Harrison Ford to play Indiana Jones, which George Lucas initially ...

Steve Edge on the “Raiders of the Lost Ark” set in the 1980s. What happened was the stuntwoman wouldn’t go in the snake pit, so (director) Steven Spielberg got me and said, ‘Would you ...

Considered one of the greatest films ever made, 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark was the premier movie in the Indiana Jones franchise. It stars Harrison Ford who plays the whip-snapping, fedora ...

Steven Soderbergh is a director obsessed. For his and our study, he converted Raiders of the Lost Ark to black and white, and scored it with a new soundtrack. He hopes we’ll come to appreciate ...