RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

The cavern is introduced not as neutral geography but as an antagonistic, breathing presence: wet, dark, hung with plant life and razor stalactites. Echoing footsteps are intermittently swallowed or magnified …

Indy moves through the Hall of Shadows with unnerving calm while Satipo panics behind him. Tarantulas crawl across Indy’s back and he brushes them away with the casual flick of …

Indy halts at a sunlit chamber and deliberately tests the beam with a thrown stick. Razor spikes slam together, impaling the half-fleshed, half-skeletal remains of explorer Forrestal — proof the …

Indy probes a shaft of sunlight with a stick and triggers a gruesome spike trap, revealing the impaled remains of Forrestal. The discovery instantly widens the moral and physical stakes: …

Indy and Satipo descend to a narrow landing strung with dead vines like invisible tripwires. Indy takes the torch, lowering flame onto a floor unnaturally carpeted with human skeletons—flattened, layered, …

Indy and Satipo cross a long, sunlit hall when the floor gives way beneath Satipo, revealing a dark, bottomless pit disguised by dust-covered cobwebs. Indy’s caution — testing with a …

Indy methodically scans the domed sanctuary for traps — torch in hand he tests tiles, finds a recessed dart hole and a dead bird riddled with poison needles, then strides …

As the temple convulses, Satipo deserts Indy—trading the whip for the jeweled idol and sprinting for safety. Poison darts, collapsing tiles and a yawning pit leave Indy dangling by his …

Indy rockets down the narrowing corridor as the temple itself turns on him: a colossal, perfectly-shaped boulder careens around the corner, obliterating stone and sending stalactites like shrapnel. His hat …

Exhausted and disarmed, Indy is confronted by Emile Belloq and his cadre of Hovitos at the temple mouth. Belloq charmingly cajoles Jones into surrendering both the golden idol and his …

Indy barrels downhill through thick jungle, breath ragged, as a hunting party of Hovitos closes fast behind him. Spears and poisoned darts zip past in narrow escapes — physical danger …

Cornered by pursuers, Indy explodes from the jungle onto a riverside cliff and frantically orders Jock to start the amphibious plane. Jock, unflappable, fires the engines while Indy leaps into …

A brief, comedic beat aboard Jock's plane breaks the tension after Indy's river escape. Indy discovers a huge boa on the cabin floor and reacts with visceral panic, exposing his …

Jock's small plane lifts from the airstrip and climbs into the bruised twilight, its solitary silhouette sliding over the brooding, impenetrable jungle below. The image closes the immediate Peru sequence …

In Indy’s cluttered college office, a domestic, autumnal calm fractures into urgency. Marcus Brody, distracted as he inspects Peruvian trinkets, voices a worry about the missing idol and the uncertain …

A mundane campus moment punctures the private exchange between Indy and Marcus: a eager teaching assistant barges in with reference books and a small logistical complaint about a checked-out volume, …

In Indy’s lecture hall a routine academic exchange becomes a wartime summons: Colonel Musgrove and Major Eaton disclose a intercepted Nazi communique linking Tanis to a ‘headpiece’ and the Staff …

At the threshold of Indiana Jones’s well‑kept Tudor, the private life of the famed archaeologist briefly intrudes on the adventure: Indy, awkwardly in a tuxedo, opens the door to find …

Indy steers Brody toward the study and deliberately creates a brief separation. As Brody crosses the foyer he freezes: a Harlow‑type woman in a silk gown lounges before a roaring …

Marcus Brody bursts into Indy’s study with a lucrative government commission: recover the Ark of the Covenant. Indy accepts immediately, insisting the Museum will keep the Ark and laying out …

A Pan Am Clipper crosses the Pacific in a single, economical visual: day to night, ocean to cloud, a compressed journey that moves Indiana Jones from one theatre of action …

Indiana Jones literally jumps into a rattling car as Army Intelligence operative Buzz Kehoe peels away from the Shanghai airport. Kehoe introduces himself and his inscrutable associate Bang Chow while …

Kehoe’s car slips out of an alley and eases down the block to Tengtu Hok’s walled palace. Bang Chow steps from the moving car carrying a small black suitcase and …

A black Mercedes screeches around the corner and halts at the palace gate, its abrupt arrival cutting through the guarded calm. A sturdy Chinese gateman is confronted by three Germans …

Kehoe calmly pushes a trash container into the alley to conceal a freshly made hole in the rear wall of Hok’s Museum, then ambles back to his car as if …

General Tengtu Hok makes a bombastic, ceremonial entrance into his palace foyer—flanked by Japanese samurai and a robed Chinese advisor—wearing a gaudy gold robe that announces wealth and taste but …

Indiana Jones covertly enters Hok’s museum through a low steel ventilation grate and peers into an immaculate, eerily empty exhibition hall. The moment turns reconnaissance: Indy catalogs priceless artifacts, senses …

In Hok's palace tea room General Tengtu Hok sits enthroned while three German officers are ceremonially served. With a pleased, almost predatory satisfaction he takes a massive handful of tiny, …

Indiana Jones slips through Hok’s museum, discovering a seven‑foot golden gong crowned by a poised hammer whose thousands of fine threads spiderweb across the ceiling and drop to each display …

Hok escorts the German delegation out of the tea room in a polished, ceremonial exit that masks the real stakes. Both sides wear satisfied faces — the Germans buoyed by …

Indiana Jones approaches a gilded headpiece, studying its exquisite carving and the round hollow at its base that marks where a staff would fit. His careful, professional curiosity turns immediately …

Indy, having just inspected the golden headpiece, is ambushed in Hok’s museum: a samurai charges and is shot dead, but a second guard slips in from the side and brutally …

Alerted by noise, General Tengtu Hok leads a unit of German soldiers in a brisk sweep along the palace's second‑floor walkway toward the footbridge spanning the moat to the museum …

A sleek Mercedes limousine detonates in an instant outside the palace, a sudden concussion of metal and glass that sends a spray of debris down the boulevard and throws bystanders …

An off‑screen explosion rips through the palace exterior and the German second‑floor patrol instantly turns toward the noise, drawing weapons and sprinting to investigate. General Hok, compelled by curiosity and …

In a swift, brutal exchange inside Hok’s museum, Indy turns a repeated low feint into a lethal tactic: after baiting the samurai to focus on the whip at his feet, …

A sudden blaze devours a Mercedes below the palace, jolting the ceremonious calm. General Tengtu Hok and three German officers stare down at the wreckage; concern and something like personal …

Indy shatters the museum display with a samurai sword and snatches the Staff of Ra headpiece, triggering a deafening gong. The sound is immediately answered by a massive ceremonial hammer …

A warning gong halts Hok mid‑run; his face goes wild, then he vanishes into an alcove and returns with a heavy Thompson submachine gun. He barrels across the palace footbridge …

Hok bursts into the museum and opens fire, cutting off Indy's ventilation retreat. Indy tears a massive ceremonial gong from its hook, heaves and rolls it across the gallery as …

Indy smashes through the museum skylight and lands in a spray of glass on a lower roof—immediately exposed to concentrated rifle fire from German soldiers posted on the palace walkway. …

Indy times a desperate, athletic leap from the museum roof onto a slowly rolling Ford. The aged metal gives way — a screech of torn tin as his legs punch …

Wounded and breathless, Indy scrambles into Kehoe’s front seat. Kehoe's alarmed reaction—then a hard, immediate response—turns panic into motion: he guns the engine, flinging Indy into the cushions as they …

A quiet, cinematic connective: the DC-3 cuts west into a blood-orange sunset, visually shrugging off the immediate violence and orienting the audience to a new stretch of the chase. Though …

Under a single seat lamp aboard the DC-3, Indiana Jones hunched over Abner Ravenwood’s journal article and a hand-drawn map of Nepal, quietly plotting his next move in the Ark …

Marion storms the crowded saloon, violently clearing patrons and shutting down a brewing brawl to assert control of her life and bar. She collides with Indiana Jones in an abrupt, …

Marion violently clears her saloon, confronts Indiana with a raw mixture of grief and fury, and converts private loss into a hard, transactional bargain. She reveals her father died in …

After a bruising reunion—Marion slugs Indy, they trade barbs about her father’s death and a decade of resentment, and strike a tense bargain—Indy lays down five thousand dollars for a …

Alone in the car outside The Raven, Indiana Jones shifts from brooding to decisive action: he starts the engine, puts the car in gear and drives away. Across the street …

Marion, torn between sentiment and survival, slips Indiana Jones's medallion from its chain but chooses to pocket his cash, leaving the sun-shaped artifact exposed on the bar. Belzig and three …

Marion tries to cover her fear with a bargain—hiding the medallion while tucking Indy’s money away—but when Belzig’s sadistic interrogation turns physical she subtly reaches for a hidden pistol. Belzig …

Indiana Jones crashes Marion Ravenwood’s standoff at The Raven, using his whip to disarm Belzig and ignite a catastrophic bar brawl. As curtains catch and alcohol-fueled flames spread, Marion moves …

Belzig, his hand charred and steaming, rips it free from the snow and scurries off into the night like a wounded animal. The flight is both physical and symbolic: his …

Marion discovers the five grand reduced to a shapeless pile of ash — a brutal, physical confirmation of her financial humiliation. Amid falling beams and smoke, Indy fights to get …

In a collapsing, burning bar Marion refuses to let the sun-shaped medallion be lost. After knocking out the Giant Sherpa and watching a Mongolian fall dead (Marion standing beneath the …

A roaming, establishing montage opens on Cairo’s ancient skyline—soaring minarets and domes—then plunges into the narrow, chaotic streets and packed bazaars. The camera lingers on faces, garments, and the claustrophobic …

In Sallah’s crowded dining room a sudden burst of childish chaos is revealed to center on a small monkey. Fayah silences the room, asserting domestic authority, but the animal’s antics—removing …

Sallah assembles the two halves of the ancient headpiece while Indy methodically cleans and loads his .45. Their easy, professional banter—Sallah's wry comment about Nazi ignorance and Indy's recognition of …

In a tense courtyard exchange, Sallah completes the headpiece and reveals he breached Tanis' map room three days earlier — and that Belloq is actively aiding the Germans. As Indy …

Indy and Marion’s playful, edged banter in a crowded Cairo bazaar briefly softens the film’s urgency — Marion fusses over Sallah’s pet while Indy dismisses the sentiment with a wry …

The stolen pet monkey bolts into the arms of a shabby beggar — the Monkey Man — who slips into a nearby building and exchanges hurried conversation with two German …

As Indiana Jones and Marion thread a crowded Cairo lane, a lone German agent on a balcony gives a quiet nod to shadowed local thugs — a human cue that …

Indy recognizes the converging threat and whips into action, using his bullwhip to stun and disarm attackers and turn a cramped market into controlled chaos. His strikes send thugs, vendors …

In a claustrophobic bazaar brawl, Indy deliberately becomes the focal point of the violence to buy Marion a narrow escape. He lashes out with his whip—disarming and flinging attackers—while ordering …

Marion squeezes down a narrow alley, vaults a five‑foot wall with a pursuer closing fast, and instinctively dispatches him when an earthen pot smashes over his head. She steps out …

Marion improvises under pressure: after vaulting a low wall and knocking a pursuer unconscious with a smashed earthen pot, she sprints toward freedom only to find another thug and a …

Indy flicks his whip and severs a vendor support; a tower of pots and pans collapses in a thunderous heap onto a Bad Arab and a German agent. The metallic …

A chattering spy-monkey tromps between narrow buildings, wildly gesturing and leading a German agent and two hired Bad Arabs straight to Marion’s hiding place. What reads as a small, comic …

In a cramped, sunlit aisle of the bazaar a concealed Arabian sword swings down — a sudden, mechanical trap meant to maim or kill. Indy slips under the blade with …

Marion Ravenwood, bound and concealed beneath a tightly lashed basket borne through a crowded bazaar by a German agent and two henchmen, forces the lid open an inch and screams …

After Marion's desperate cry, Indy locks onto the basket's retreat and slams into the crowd. He improvises—his whip flashing to unbalance the last pursuer and create a path—then pushes frantically …

Indy fights a tidal crush of people through narrow streets as a Nazi-controlled basket darts just out of reach, each corner offering only a tantalizing glimpse. Frustrated and nearly swept …

Indy cracks his whip to stop two men bearing the mysterious basket; when the lid flies off it reveals not Marion but a cache of pistols, rifles and ammunition — …

Indy rounds a corner into a broad, empty square and is immediately pinned down by sudden machine‑gun fire. Taking cover, he gets fractured, desperate glimpses: two thugs hauling a large …

A woven basket, invisible to Indiana Jones, falls unremarked into the open rear of a speeding German truck and comes to rest amid stacked munitions, dynamite and firearms. The truck …

During a desperate desert chase Indy uses a rare lull — the German agent has stopped firing to steer — to take careful aim and fire three shots that kill …

In a smoke-filled Cairo bar a drunken, vulnerable Indiana is corralled by three German henchmen into a shadowed corner where Emile Belloq sits, calm and urbane. Belloq converts a polite …

In a smoke-choked Cairo bar a drunk Indiana Jones is corralled into a private meeting with Emile Belloq and three German henchmen. Belloq needles Indy about Marion, insists they are …

A drunken, grieving Indiana confronts Emile Belloq in a smoke-filled Cairo bar. Belloq calmly reframes their rivalry — the Ark is not loot but a 'transmitter,' a means to speak …

Indy arrives exhausted and delivers the blunt news that Marion is dead. Sallah comforts him, reframes the grief—pointing to his children as proof that life continues—and converts sorrow into a …

After a brief, rueful reunion in Sallah’s truck, Indy and Sallah pivot from grief into urgent action when Amir deciphers the broken headpiece. The markings reveal the staff height — …

A moment of triumph and levity abruptly curdles into a sharp, physical threat. After Amir deciphers the headpiece and Indy and Sallah celebrate discovering the Nazis’ miscalculation, the household’s playful …

Disguised as an Arab, Indiana slips from Sallah’s cab to meet Omar on a desert road. The men silently confer, point toward the dunes, and make a quick, practical decision: …

From a rise above the chaotic Tanis excavation Indy and Sallah take in the full scope of the Nazi operation. Sallah pinpoints the map room; Indy learns the sun will …

Posing as Arab diggers, Indiana Jones and Sallah ride in the back of Sallah’s truck through the chaotic Tanis excavation and deliberately disappear behind a tent — a small, surgical …

Disguised as local diggers, Indy and Sallah creep among the Tanis tents to a five‑foot square skylight that hides the ancient map room. Sallah secures a length of rope to …

Indy drops twenty feet into a luminous map chamber and, breath caught, takes in carved frescoes and a painstaking miniature of ancient Tanis. A single shaft of sunlight slices the …

High above the map room a panic‑tinged Sallah fingers a rope, trying to look nonchalant while activity swells around him. A German soldier spots him, orders him over, and compels …

Indiana studies Belloq’s painstaking scale model and discovers a red-painted marker and a taut white measuring tape linking a miniature building to a tiny map room. He then examines the …

While Sallah braces the rope between a pulling truck and a stuck jeep, his eyes keep flicking to the map-room skylight. A hungry German barks at him for food; pressed …

Indy carefully seats the Staff of Ra in its base and, with clinical precision, adjusts the headpiece until a tiny focused sunbeam crawls across the miniature city. The beam slips …

Sallah, exhausted and sweating, dutifully serves a line of occupying German soldiers then edges away to replace an empty kettle. A brusque demand—"Water. Bring us water."—cuts through the small gesture …

Indy confirms Belloq's error by measuring from the rival's misplaced mark to the true Well of Souls, a quiet intellectual victory that crystallizes the difference between them. He seizes the …

After he validates Belloq's mistake and destroys the staff, Indy scrambles beneath the map room skylight, desperate for any exit. He calls softly, then louder, for Sallah — silence answers. …

Indiana squeezes through the map room skylight while Sallah quickly reels in and hides their improvised rope inside an oil drum. As they move toward the enemy tents, a German's …

Pressed for time after a thwarted skylight escape, Indy moves like a shadow through the cramped German encampment. Two officers talking block his exit, so he hugs the canvas, reads …

Indy discovers Marion tied and gagged, rips off her gag and they share a charged reunion kiss that lays bare their unresolved history. Marion tells him the Nazis have manhandled …

Inside a surprisingly comfortable tent Indy discovers Marion bound and gagged. After a rushed, relieved reunion—kisses and quick questions—Indy makes a grim tactical choice: to leave her tied so their …

Indy and Sallah crest the dune and, after the tense, quiet ascent, their rushed approach is answered: Omar’s truck sits waiting at the far lip and Omar and his men …

Perched on a higher dune, Indiana Jones takes a reading with a surveyor’s instrument and, through expert triangulation, draws a straight line from the map-room coordinates across the Nazi encampment …

Omar’s truck pulls up and a lookout is posted on a ridge as Indy, Sallah, Omar and their crew begin a brutal, back‑breaking excavation at the spot Jones has just …

Inside the cramped command tent the professional argument about a miscalculation turns political and personal. Belloq defends his scholarly caution while Shliemann frames the delay as insubordination to Berlin and …

Tensions in the command tent boil over as Shliemann and Gobler openly undermine Belloq’s professional credibility and push from academic caution to brute force. When Gobler suggests Marion might be …

Indy and Sallah force open a heavy stone door to expose the subterranean Well of Souls: a torch-lit, thirty-foot chamber ringed with hieroglyphics, pillars and a carved altar holding a …

After prying open a heavy stone door, Indy and Sallah lower torches into a thirty-foot-deep chamber and discover the Well of the Souls: an altar-surrounded pit carpeted with thousands of …

Indy and Sallah convert the lowered crate, torches and oil into a desperate, improvised solution: Indy swings down, narrowly brushes a fragile pillar that sheds stone, then pours parallel lines …

As Indy and Sallah carve a narrow, torch-lit island of safety, the film intercuts to a horrifying revelation: the snakes beyond the flames are not static obstacles but a teeming, …

Belloq interrogates an ungagged, terrified Marion, attempting to cajole intelligence from her to appease the Nazi officers who pressure him. Marion insists she knows nothing of Indy and casts herself …

At first light, Omar and his crew peer into a thin, telltale column of smoke curling from the Well’s entrance. The small, mundane wisp becomes a decisive sign: whoever is …

Indy and Sallah finally pry the stone lid away and expose the awe-inspiring Ark, whose presence charges the air and drives the sea of snakes back. Sallah is mesmerized; Indy …

After they pry the Ark free and feel the strange, humming power that repels the snakes, Indy stops Sallah from touching the angels and carefully crates the Ark. As torches …

At first light the Nazis hold Sallah, Omar and the dig crew at gunpoint while the wooden crate containing the Ark sits exposed. Belzig and a guard have Marion roughly …

Shliemann orders Marion thrown into the Well of the Souls and, to Belloq’s visible pain, commands the entrance sealed — prioritizing the Fuhrer’s prize over human life. Marion falls but …

Trapped in a sealed chamber as torches gutter and venomous snakes close in, Indy improvises a fire-lit corridor, creates a protective oil ring for Marion, then climbs a pillar, wraps …

Indy and Marion thread a suffocating maze of chambers where horror is revealed a step at a time: mummies, stacked sarcophagi, a room of skulls and walls crawling with scarabaeid …

While winding through the catacombs amid mummies, skulls and Marion’s rising panic, Indy suddenly grabs her attention and points to a thin crack of white sunlight slicing into the next …

Hidden in an abandoned excavation, Indy and Marion watch the Nazi Flying Wing land and overhear Gobler order it gassed for an urgent shipment—confirming their narrow window to intercept the …

A covert stakeout explodes into a claustrophobic, high-stakes fight when two German mechanics discover Indy and Marion beside the Flying Wing. Marion incapacitates the pilot, but his collapsing body jams …

Nazi guards ring the sealed Ark crate beside the command tent while Belloq, Shliemann and officers hurriedly pack and coordinate a withdrawal. Arab diggers — including Sallah — cluster helplessly, …

A sudden, earthshaking explosion at the nearby airstrip sends a towering fireball over the ridge and the entire excavation camp into chaos. Arab diggers — including Sallah — and most …

At the smoking wreck of the Flying Wing, Belloq and Shliemann react to a second explosion and harden the scene’s priorities: the Ark must be moved. Shliemann issues rapid, military …

A tense, catalytic beat: Belloq and Shliemann arrive at the smoking wreck of the Flying Wing and order the Ark evacuated immediately, while Belloq watches the ruins with an oddly …

Hidden behind water barrels as Belloq and Nazi officers load the crated Ark into a truck, Indy watches the convoy and realizes the artifact is already escaping. He orders Marion …

Without warning Indy explodes from the tents astride a magnificent white Arabian stallion and guns the animal across the desert toward the dig's rim. The sudden, cinematic entrance shatters the …

Indy cuts across country — leaping gullies, climbing dunes, sliding slopes — to close on a Nazi convoy seen far below. He times his movement along a parallel ridge, keeping …

Emerging suddenly between boulders, Indiana Jones charges the Nazi transport on horseback, drawing hostile fire from a trailing staff car. He vaults from his mount onto the truck, ejects the …

A high‑stakes mountain chase crescendos as Indy wrestles control of the Nazi transport. A trailing staff car careens off a hairpin, explodes below and briefly distracts the truck driver — …

A high-speed mountain-road confrontation cascades into chaos: Indy uses the tunnel to fling Nazi riders off the truck, a lead staff car careens and explodes below, and Shliemann’s desperate insistence …

Indy clings to a dangerously thin lead as a Nazi staff car barrels through Cairo's crowded streets. He threads his truck into an impossibly narrow alley, shaving inches from doorframes …

Indy barrels into a small square and shoves his truck through Omar’s open garage where the door slams shut behind him. In an instant Omar’s allies unfurl tents, plant fruit …

On a mist-locked Cairo pier the tramp steamer Bantu Wind prepares to cast off. Pirates load final stores beneath a single pool of light where Indiana Jones and Marion share …

Under a cold, steady moon the Batu Wind slices through an even Mediterranean, a deliberate breath between assaults. The shot establishes time, place and mood: a quiet, liminal transit that …

Indy returns exhausted to his cabin and finds Marion waiting in a prim, snow-white nightgown. Their playful, sexually charged banter—about pirate wardrobes, ruined taverns, and things you can’t recapture—peels back …

Indy returns to his cabin and finds Marion in a prim, white nightgown; a teasing, intimate beat opens into a raw accounting of past wounds. Indy apologizes for burning Marion’s …

In the ship's hold a small, nonverbal alarm sounds: the rats grow unnaturally agitated, trembling and chittering at the compartment's edges as they circle the lone crated Ark. A low, …

Marion is jolted awake by an oppressive, unnatural silence aboard the ship. The small, intimate moment of vulnerability collapses as Indy straps on his holster, grabs his whip and jacket, …

Indiana Jones explodes up the lower-deck steps toward the bow with palpable urgency, prioritizing action over protocol. A messenger pirate scrambles to intercept him—so desperate he careens past on the …

Captain Katanga abruptly spots a semicircle of ten German wolf submarines, their deck guns trained, with multiple armed boarding parties closing in. He grabs Indy’s attention and, with urgent authority, …

Racing across the upper deck, Indiana Jones looks over the rail and sees two Nazi assault rafts already alongside the ship. This single, stark image converts the mission's tone: the …

Indy drops into the lower deck and, spotting a swelling Nazi sweep, immediately abandons a direct fight. He throws himself back into the ship's twisting corridors as Nazis storm the …

Indy rounds a corner on the lower deck and instantly chooses stealth over confrontation as he witnesses Nazis yanking Marion into custody. Marion, still in her white nightgown, fights and …

Nazi soldiers swarm the Bantu Wind, violently cowing Captain Katanga's Black pirate crew—herding them forward, abusing them physically and verbally, and enforcing an order not to resist. The brutality is …

The crated Ark is solemnly shouldered out of the hold and ordered aboard the Nazi transport Wurrfler, a visual of cold, bureaucratic triumph as Belloq watches with hungry, reverent eyes. …

With the Ark safely crated and marched away, the scene pivots from artifact to person: Captain Katanga, having lost Indiana, bluntly declares Jones dead and attempts to recoup his loss …

On the Wurrfler's conning tower a quiet command clash plays out: the submarine's honorable captain refuses an unprovoked torpedo strike while the impatient Nazi Shliemann implies escalation is only a …

On the Wurrfler's conning tower a brief naval restraint—an honorable captain refusing to fire—gives way to violence of a different kind. As the sub begins to dive, Indiana Jones explodes …

Clinging by sheer improvisation to the submarine's periscope, Indy endures cold spray and the strain of holding on while most of his body trails in the water. He has sacrificed …

At dusk Indiana Jones hangs spent and waterlogged from a surfaced submarine periscope, every movement an act of will. The wet leather of his whip contracts against his skin, biting …

Under a cold moon, dark fins slice the ocean around the surfaced submarine, turning the sea into a ring of teeth. Indiana Jones — exhausted, sodden and clinging to the …

Exhausted and alone, Indiana Jones clings to the submarine periscope while shark fins wheel like punctuation around the steel hull. With nothing left to do he lets his eyes close …

Alone on the dark Mediterranean, Indiana Jones clings to the submarine periscope as circling sharks track the floating wreckage. Exhausted, his eyelids droop: there is nothing left to fight. This …

After the Ark's apocalyptic release, Indy lies half-conscious at a periscope, watching sharks streak alongside the surface. Physically exhausted and spiritually hollow from the divine catastrophe he has witnessed, he …

Indiana Jones blinks awake on the submarine’s periscope, takes stock of his battered body, and feels a surge of grim relief — he’s still alive and ready to fight. He …

As the submarine gouges deeper into the cliff tunnel, Indy clings to the periscope with his legs and whip, sustaining a makeshift leather air pocket. Thick marine vegetation tugs at …

After being torn from the periscope and swept clear of the submarine, Indy fights blind, cold water in a narrowing tunnel. He dives deeper, steadies himself on a vine, and …

A triumphant, performative transfer: the Nazi sub docks and the Ark is unloaded onto a cart while Emile Belloq, accompanied by Shliemann and a weary Marion, forces the Ark to …

Indy is concealed aboard the surfaced Nazi sub, clinging invisibly above the dock by winding his whip around the periscope. The cavernous base hums with the ceremonial unloading of the …

Cramped in the low, lantern-lit tunnel as the Ark inches forward, Belloq and Shliemann's philosophical divide crystallizes into political distrust. Belloq playfully forces Shliemann to confront the choice between reverence …

Inside a vast, three‑story German command cavern, Emile Belloq stops and instantly recognizes his prize: a brilliant white silk tent — the Tabernacle — pitched like a sacred island amid …

Indy hears the rumble of approaching mine cars and instinctively melts into the tunnel's shadows, holding his breath as a car filled with laughing Nazi soldiers roars past. The quiet …

Indy slips up onto a stack of supplies and conducts a quick, surgical recon of the command center. From his vantage he locks onto three tactical loci—the Tabernacle at center, …

Belloq emerges cloaked in ceremonial robes and lifts an ivory rod to begin an invocation over the Ark, transforming the dig into a sacred, trance-like ceremony that unsettles even the …

Indiana Jones storms the Tabernacle with a bazooka, interrupting Belloq’s hypnotic, gold-robed invocation at the Ark and threatening to blow it open unless Marion is produced. The militaristic impatience of …

Shliemann emerges from the Tabernacle flanked by the Tall Captain and two Nazi guards, dragging a bound Indiana Jones into the open. Shliemann theatrically points to a nearby wall and …