Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was a film in the Indiana Jones series. One of the scenes involved characters riding a vintage motorcycle with a sidecar.
Film-enthusiast Corporal Dobby Palmer mentioned the film when he and Captain Wilson found themselves in a similar situation, although Wilson was reminded more of The Great Escape. (PROSE: The Crawling Terror)
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Harrison Ford returned as the titular character while River Phoenix starred in the prologue as the young Indiana Jones. Julian Glover played the main antagonist of the film. Michael Sheard appeared in a cameo role as Adolf Hitler. Kevork Malikyan, Frederick Jaeger and Alexei Sayle were also among the cast. The plot centred around the quest for the Holy Grail.
The ending of this film is heavily nodded to in the climax of Wolfsbane. In the novel, Harry Sullivan confronts the villain with the Grail. The cavern floor splits open and the villain and the Grail fall into the depths.
Steven Moffat compared Hitler's comedic scene in Let's Kill Hitler to the scene in this movie in which Indiana Jones accidentally receives Hitler's autograph.[1]
In Almost Perfect, it is mentioned that one of the Indiana Jones films features his father, a nod to this film.
In Plague City, Bill Potts mentions a scene from an Indiana Jones film in which Indiana Jones has to take a leap of faith across a chasm in a cave. He traverses a hidden stone bridge, painted to look like the opposite cliff side. She initially confuses it for Raiders of the Lost Ark but fails to remember its proper name, only that it had Sean Connery in it. In the actual film, Sean Connery played Indy's father. His character was also the passenger in the sidecar mentioned above.
The biplane used in the Matrix sequences in The Deadly Assassin is a 1949 Stampe SV.4C with the registration G-AWXZ. This same plane was also used in the filming of The Last Crusade, as well as The Mummy. (INFO: The Deadly Assassin)
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- ↑ Doctor Who's Day Roundup: Steven Moffat Says 'Taking the Mickey' Out of Hitler Was the Plan. Anglophenia (17th August, 2011). Retrieved on 26th June, 2020.
