107 Fun Facts About Indiana Jones

Which creatures is Indiana Jones famously terrified of?

Snakes have haunted him since boyhood: The Last Crusade opens with a young Indy tumbling into a heap of writhing snakes while fleeing through a circus train.

At the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where does the Ark finally end up?

In a government warehouse: Indy is told only that 'top men' are studying the Ark, and the last shot shows it nailed into a crate and wheeled away among thousands just like it.

In The Last Crusade, Indy and his father are racing the Nazis to find what?

The Holy Grail is what Indy's father, a lifelong Grail scholar, was hunting when he vanished, and the diary of clues he posts to Indy becomes the thing the Nazis chase across Europe.

Who plays Marion Ravenwood, first seen out-drinking a customer in a Nepal bar?

Karen Allen won the part on the strength of her film debut in Animal House, then returned 27 years later for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which Marion and Indy finally marry.

Indy's loyal Egyptian digger friend Sallah is played by which actor?

John Rhys-Davies called Sallah a favourite role, yet turned down a cameo as a wedding guest in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull because he felt the character deserved more than one scene.

Kate Capshaw plays which Shanghai nightclub singer in Temple of Doom?

Willie Scott was written as the opposite of tough Marion Ravenwood, so Kate Capshaw bleached her brown hair blonde for the part; seven years later she married the film's director, Steven Spielberg.

Which child actor made his screen debut as Short Round, Indy's sidekick in Temple of Doom?

Ke Huy Quan had only tagged along to his brother's audition, but the casting director saw him coaching from behind the camera and asked him to try; decades later he won an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once.

George Lucas named Indiana Jones after what?

His dog, an Alaskan Malamute called Indiana, rode in the passenger seat of his car and also inspired Chewbacca; The Last Crusade nods to her by giving young Indy a Malamute of his own.

Raiders of the Lost Ark has the Nazis excavating which buried Egyptian city?

Tanis is a real city in the Nile Delta, but no sandstorm ever swallowed it as the film claims; in 1939 French archaeologist Pierre Montet found intact royal tombs there, still packed with gold.

The violence of Temple of Doom helped prompt the creation of which MPAA rating?

PG-13 was Spielberg's own idea: after parents complained about his PG-rated film, he phoned ratings chief Jack Valenti and asked for a step between PG and R, and it was in place within weeks.

Who directed Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny?

James Mangold was Harrison Ford's pick: the two had just worked together on The Call of the Wild, so when Spielberg stepped aside after directing all four earlier films, Ford put his name forward.

Which actor was first cast as Indiana Jones but lost the role when CBS held him to a TV contract?

Tom Selleck had to say no because CBS would not release him from Magnum, P.I.; a Hollywood strike then delayed the series, so he could have made both after all.

In Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Indy survives a nuclear test by climbing into what?

A refrigerator, lead-lined, is hurled clear of the blast with Indy inside, and the scene gave English a new phrase: to 'nuke the fridge', said of a film series that has gone too far, modelled on 'jump the shark'.

In The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, a young Indy meets which former US president in British East Africa in 1909?

Theodore Roosevelt really was on safari there in 1909, collecting specimens for the Smithsonian; in the episode Indy befriends a Maasai boy and comes away troubled by animals being shot for museum displays.

Which Last of Us voice actor plays Indy in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle?

Troy Baker supplies the voice and movement under Harrison Ford's likeness, and won the part even though Bethesda's Todd Howard had told him to his face that he was not what they wanted.

Which actress plays Soviet agent Irina Spalko in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?

Cate Blanchett had wanted to play a villain for a couple of years and said yes at once; she invented so much of Spalko herself that Spielberg named her his favourite villain of the series.

Who plays Mutt, the motorcycle-riding greaser revealed to be Indy's son?

Shia LaBeouf signed on without reading the script or knowing his part; Dial of Destiny later writes Mutt out, saying he enlisted to spite his father and was killed in Vietnam.

In Dial of Destiny, Indy's goddaughter Helena Shaw is played by whom?

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator of Fleabag, was told to model the grifting Helena on Barbara Stanwyck's con artist in The Lady Eve, a brief she laughed off as 'an impossible feat'.

Which actor plays the ex-Nazi scientist Jürgen Voller in Dial of Destiny?

Mads Mikkelsen, already a Bond villain and TV's Hannibal Lecter, was digitally de-aged for the film's wartime opening and said of his younger face, 'I sense a smell of plastic.'

The Shanghai nightclub in the opening of Temple of Doom is named after which Star Wars character?

Obi-Wan lends the club its name, and the Busby Berkeley-style dance number inside it is there because Lucas kept reminding Spielberg that he had always wanted to shoot a musical.

The child-enslaving, heart-ripping cult in Temple of Doom worships the goddess Kali and is called what?

The Thuggee were real: gangs of robbers who strangled travellers on India's roads until the British hunted them down from the 1830s, and their name gave English the word 'thug'.

The temple at the climax of The Last Crusade is really Al-Khazneh, the Treasury, in which ancient city?

Petra supplied only the doorway: behind the Treasury's facade are a few small empty rooms, so the knight's chamber was built at Elstree Studios, while King Hussein and Queen Noor hosted the crew on location.

Which country stood in for Egypt during the desert shoot of Raiders of the Lost Ark?

Tunisia's 130-degree heat and local food laid most of the crew low with dysentery; Spielberg stayed well on cans he had brought along, and a sick Harrison Ford cut the big sword fight down to one gunshot.

John Williams' Raiders score was nominated for an Oscar but lost to which film's score?

Chariots of Fire won for Vangelis's score; the Raiders March it beat was really two tunes in one, because Spielberg liked both themes John Williams played him and asked for them to be joined.

Which Star Wars star wrote the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode in which Indy romances the spy Mata Hari?

Carrie Fisher was in demand as a writer after her novel Postcards from the Edge, and her script sends a teenage Indy on leave from the trenches to Paris, where he falls for the dancer.

Harrison Ford wears a beard in his one Young Indiana Jones TV appearance because he had grown it for which movie?

The Fugitive needed the beard for its early scenes, so when the TV bookend was shot in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where Ford has his ranch, the middle-aged Indy had one too.

LucasArts' classic 1992 point-and-click adventure sends Indiana Jones in search of which lost city?

Atlantis was the designers' own idea: asked to turn an unused film script into a game, they turned it down and went looking for a legend of their own.

Dial of Destiny's New York chase crosses a ticker-tape parade celebrating what?

The return of the Apollo 11 astronauts fills Manhattan with ticker tape as Indy, framed for the murder of two colleagues, flees through the parade, then an anti-war protest, and down into the subway.

Which actor plays the teenage Indiana Jones in the 1912 prologue of The Last Crusade?

River Phoenix had played Harrison Ford's son in The Mosquito Coast, and Ford recommended him as the young actor who looked most like he had at that age; Phoenix prepared by studying Ford, not Indy.

After India's government objected to the Temple of Doom script, the location shoot moved to which country?

Sri Lanka had a gorge right beside a dam under construction near Kandy, so the British engineers building the dam strung the film's rope bridge across it.

In the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indy outruns the giant boulder in a temple in which country?

Peru was really the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where the jungle exteriors were shot, and the boulder was a fiberglass prop that Spielberg liked so much he had its ramp on the studio set extended.

During the Temple of Doom shoot, Harrison Ford flew home to Los Angeles for treatment on which part of his body?

His back: a herniated disc left him in agony mid-shoot, so stunt double Vic Armstrong stood in for weeks while Ford recovered.

Indy's fictional employer, Marshall College, is named after which member of the Indiana Jones crew?

The producer, Frank Marshall, lent the college his name and turns up on screen too: he is the pilot of the Flying Wing in Raiders of the Lost Ark and pulls a rickshaw in Temple of Doom.

In the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark, what does Indy leave on the pedestal in place of the golden idol?

A bag of sand, with a handful poured out to match the idol's weight, still proves wrong: the pedestal sinks, the temple starts to collapse and Indy has to run for it.

In The Last Crusade, Indy breaks through a library floor into rat-filled catacombs beneath which city?

Venice's catacombs were a studio set, but the rats wading through them were real, with about a thousand fake ones made for the shots that would have put live animals in danger.

In The Last Crusade, the clue 'Only the penitent man will pass' tells Indy to do what at the first trap?

Kneel: a penitent man is humble before God, so Indy drops to his knees at the last second and the spinning blades pass through the space where his neck had been.

The Last Crusade ends with four riders heading into the sunset: Indy, his father, Sallah and which friend?

Marcus Brody is the curator Indy says once got lost in his own museum; the desert sunset was really filmed later near Amarillo, Texas.

Which British city was dressed up as 1969 New York for Dial of Destiny?

Glasgow's Victorian sandstone blocks stand on a street grid much like an American city's, so its centre was closed for two weeks and dressed as 1969 Manhattan, shopfronts, signs and all.

Dial of Destiny had its world premiere at which film festival?

Cannes screened it out of competition in May 2023, and just before the lights went down the festival surprised Harrison Ford with an honorary Palme d'Or.

Which Jurassic Park screenwriter got sole screenplay credit for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?

David Koepp's script was the one that finally won approval, after years of drafts by other writers, among them Jeb Stuart, Jeffrey Boam and Frank Darabont.

Which future Spider-Man villain debuted on film as Satipo, Indy's treacherous guide in Raiders of the Lost Ark?

Alfred Molina spent his first film scene covered in tarantulas that refused to move: they were all males, so the wrangler added one female and the spiders ran straight up to his face.

The near-identical Tokyo DisneySea version of the Indiana Jones Adventure ride is subtitled what?

Temple of the Crystal Skull opened in 2001, seven years before the film with the similar title and unrelated to it: its riders follow Indy's search for the Fountain of Youth.

The truck in the queue for Disneyland's Indiana Jones Adventure appeared on screen in which scene?

The Raiders desert chase truck is the one Indy is dragged behind on his whip before he hauls himself back aboard, throws out the driver and takes the wheel all the way to Cairo.

Whose face melts at the climax of Raiders of the Lost Ark?

Toht, the Gestapo agent, melts because Chris Walas built his face from coloured layers of gelatin over a stone skull and filmed it slowly under heaters; Dietrich shrivels and Belloq's head explodes.

The Raiders of the Lost Ark score was among the first recorded at which studio after Anvil closed?

Abbey Road, the Beatles' studio, was new to film music: the Denham stage where Star Wars had been recorded was demolished in 1980, so its recording team moved in, just in time for Indy.

Which Ghostbusters star cameos in Temple of Doom as the man who arranges Indy's flight out of Shanghai?

Dan Aykroyd turns up for a few seconds with an English accent as Weber, who cheerfully packs the trio onto a plane full of live chickens that belongs to the very gangster they are fleeing.

The Last Crusade's prologue shows a bullwhip giving young Indy which real feature of Harrison Ford's face?

The scar on his chin is real: Harrison Ford got it in a car accident as a young man, long before the film invented a lion, a whip and a circus train to explain it.

An abandoned third Indiana Jones script was named after which figure from Chinese legend?

The Monkey King, in Chris Columbus's script, turns up in Africa and raises a slain Indy from the dead; the project was shelved for the story that became The Last Crusade.

Which actor played Indiana Jones's father despite being only 12 years older than Harrison Ford?

Sean Connery was Spielberg's first and only choice: the series had begun as his and Lucas's answer to James Bond, so in a sense 007 already was Indy's father.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, which poisoned fruit does Sallah snatch away just before Indy eats it?

Dates: Indy tosses one in the air, and Sallah catches it because he has just seen the animal that ate from the bowl lying dead on the floor, a discovery he sums up in two words: 'Bad dates.'

In The Last Crusade, Indy nearly falls to his death by stepping on which letter while spelling the name of God?

J is the natural first step for 'Jehovah', but the stone crumbles beneath him: in the Latin alphabet the name begins with an I, as his wounded father is murmuring at that very moment.

Which James Bond actor appears as a German officer in a Young Indiana Jones adventure alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones?

Daniel Craig, years before he was cast as 007, played Schiller, an arrogant German intelligence chief in wartime Palestine who ends the episode shot dead by Indy.

Dial of Destiny's time-travel finale drops Indy into which ancient siege, where he meets Archimedes?

Syracuse is under Roman attack in 214 BC when the plane bursts out of the sky, and the warring armies take it for a dragon and shoot it down; the dial had been built to summon help from the future.

Which Spanish star plays Renaldo, the diver who takes Indy to a shipwreck in Dial of Destiny?

Antonio Banderas plays the man Indy calls 'Spain's greatest frogman', and was frank about how small the part was: 'almost a cameo', he said, though happy to join the saga.

In Dial of Destiny, what job does Sallah hold when Indy seeks him out in 1969 New York?

Cab driver: Indy had helped Sallah's family settle in America, and when Indy is framed for murder his old friend helps him get out of the country.

Which real Cold War program inspired the writers to bring Nazis back as villains in Dial of Destiny?

Paperclip was the secret US operation that brought more than 1,500 German scientists and engineers to America after the war, among them Wernher von Braun, who went on to lead its rocket programme.

Which Star Wars pair appears among the hieroglyphs in the Well of Souls in Raiders of the Lost Ark?

R2-D2 and C-3PO are carved into the chamber wall, a wink from a crew recruited largely from Star Wars, which had been shot at the same English studio.

George Lucas's original 1973 treatment gave the hero Indiana which surname instead of Jones?

Smith was the hero's name in The Adventures of Indiana Smith, the outline Lucas shelved to make Star Wars. His director later objected to the surname, and Jones replaced it.

Indy shoots the Cairo swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark because Harrison Ford was ill with what?

Dysentery left Ford unable to film for long stretches, so the lengthy duel the script planned was cut to a single gunshot. The stuntman had spent weeks practising his swordplay.

After the pilots bail out over the Himalayas in Temple of Doom, Indy's trio exit the plane in what?

An inflatable raft carries the three out of the plane, down a Himalayan slope and into rapids. The aircraft belonged to Lao Che, the Shanghai crime boss Indy was fleeing.

In The Last Crusade, Indy's father downs a Nazi fighter by startling a flock of gulls with what?

An umbrella, flapped at the gulls, sends the birds into the pursuing plane's engines. Doves played the gulls on film because the real ones would not fly.

Temple of Doom is set in 1935, which makes it what kind of follow-up to Raiders of the Lost Ark?

A prequel let George Lucas avoid using the Nazis as villains twice running. Moving the story a year earlier made room for a different enemy.

In Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the alien mummy in Hangar 51 comes from which famous UFO incident?

Roswell supplies the alien body that the Soviets kidnap Indy to find. George Lucas pitched the beings as interdimensional rather than extraterrestrial to win over his director.

Which toy brand retold the first three Indiana Jones films as a humorous 2008 video game?

Lego gave the first three films a slapstick retelling in The Original Adventures, built by Traveller's Tales. A sequel followed a year later.

Harrison Ford was already famous for which Star Wars role when he first played Indiana Jones?

Han Solo made Ford a star in 1977, four years before Raiders of the Lost Ark. George Lucas hesitated to cast him again, wary of seeming to rely on one actor.

In Dial of Destiny, Indy and Helena Shaw race after the stolen dial through Tangier in what vehicle?

A tuk-tuk carries Indy, Helena and her young accomplice Teddy through the streets. A dozen of the three-wheelers were used, and the scene was shot in Fez, not Tangier.

Which animals devour the villain who falls from the severed rope bridge in Temple of Doom?

Crocodiles wait in the gorge far below after Indy cuts the bridge with a sword. British engineers building a nearby dam helped the crew construct the real bridge.

The 1912 prologue of The Last Crusade shows teenage Indy in the uniform of which youth organization?

The Boy Scouts supplied young Indy's uniform at the suggestion of the director, himself an Eagle Scout. The troop is exploring caves in Utah when the adventure begins.

What rises from the crumbling ruins of Akator at the end of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?

A flying saucer lifts out of the ruins and departs for another dimension, not outer space. Early saucer designs were rejected for looking too much like Close Encounters.

Dial of Destiny reveals that Mutt, the son of Indy and Marion, was killed in which war?

The Vietnam War claimed Mutt before the 1969 story opens, and grief has driven his parents apart. The couple reconcile in the film's final scene.

In Dial of Destiny, ex-Nazi Jürgen Voller works under a false name for which American agency?

NASA employs Voller under the alias Dr. Schmidt, and the CIA shields him as he hunts the dial. The US disavows him once he goes rogue in Tangier.

Which studio released the first four Indiana Jones films before Disney took over the fifth?

Paramount agreed a five-film deal with George Lucas by 1979 but released only four. Disney bought the rights to future films in 2013, a year after acquiring Lucasfilm.

In The Last Crusade, Indy and his father try to flee Berlin aboard which kind of aircraft?

A Zeppelin carries the pair out of Berlin until it turns around, forcing them to steal its spare plane. The two actors played their table scene without trousers because the set was so hot.

In The Last Crusade's canyon battle, Indy fights the Nazi officer Vogel atop which moving vehicle?

A tank built for the film on an excavator's frame carries the fight until it plunges over a cliff with Vogel aboard. It took four months to construct.

After The Last Crusade, Harrison Ford donated Indy's hat and jacket to which American institution?

The Smithsonian holds the costume at its National Museum of American History in Washington. The hat had a practical job on set: it hid the faces of stunt doubles.

The submarine in Raiders of the Lost Ark was borrowed from the production of which war film?

Das Boot lent its U-boat on one condition: the vessel must stay out of deep water. The scenes were filmed at La Rochelle on the French coast.

In Dial of Destiny, which modern object do Indy and Helena find on the skeleton of Archimedes?

A wristwatch on the ancient skeleton's arm is the first hint that someone from the future reached the past. Archimedes had taken it from the wreck of Voller's plane.

In Dial of Destiny, Indy realizes Voller's time-travel sums are wrong because they ignore what?

Continental drift had shifted the coordinates since the dial was built, so the plane misses 1939 by more than two thousand years and lands in the middle of an ancient siege.

The Dial of Destiny is modeled on which real ancient Greek device pulled from a shipwreck in 1901?

The Antikythera mechanism, a geared machine for predicting the heavens, was found by sponge divers off a Greek island. The film credits it to Archimedes, though whether he built it is unclear.

George Lucas first pitched Indiana Jones to his future director while vacationing in which US state?

Hawaii was Lucas's hideout in May 1977 while he waited for news of Star Wars, which he feared would flop. His friend had hoped to direct a spy film until he heard the pitch.

Which screenwriter wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark and also helped write a Star Wars sequel?

Lawrence Kasdan was hired to fill the story gaps between the set pieces his two bosses had dreamed up. He later turned down the offer to write Temple of Doom.

The American Film Institute ranked Indiana Jones the second-greatest film hero, behind which lawyer?

Atticus Finch, as played by Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird, topped the 2003 list of heroes. The spy 007 finished third, one place behind Indy.

Disneyland Paris's Indiana Jones et le Temple du Péril was the first Disney coaster to include what?

An upside-down loop made the 1993 ride the first Disney coaster to turn guests head over heels. It was built as a quick thrill ride while Space Mountain was years away.

Which publisher launched The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones as a comic book series in 1983?

Marvel Comics ran the series until 1986, giving Indy his first adventures written for the page. Dark Horse picked up the licence in 1990.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Marion's medallion fits on top of which artifact to pinpoint the Ark?

The Staff of Ra must be cut to the right height, and the Nazis get it wrong. Their copy of the medallion, taken from a burn on a hand, shows only one side.

In Temple of Doom, the villagers of Mayapore beg Indy to bring home which sacred relic?

A Sankara stone is one of five said to have been given by the Hindu gods to fight evil. The cult nearby already holds three and uses enslaved children to dig for the rest.

Which Temple of Doom high priest, played by Amrish Puri, makes Indy drink a trance-inducing potion?

Mola Ram, the cult's leader, was played by Indian actor Amrish Puri. Puri first turned the part down and was talked round by Richard Attenborough, his Gandhi director.

In Temple of Doom, a boy maharaja hosts Indy at a lavish banquet in which royal residence?

Pankot Palace hides the cult's temple and mines in tunnels beneath its floors. The banquet's gross-out menu was meant as a joke on Western ideas of Indian food, one actor said.

Mutt's biker look in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was modeled on Marlon Brando in which film?

The Wild One set Mutt's style after George Lucas vetoed a plan to make him a nerd. The actor also studied Rebel Without a Cause and Blackboard Jungle for the part.

Pat Roach, who plays several Indiana Jones heavies, was first turned down for which Star Wars role?

Darth Vader went to someone else, but George Lucas remembered Roach. He fights Indy as a Sherpa and a mechanic in Raiders of the Lost Ark and as a mine overseer in Temple of Doom.

Which Asian territory doubled for 1935 Shanghai during the filming of Temple of Doom?

Macau, then a Portuguese colony, supplied the streets of old Shanghai. The cinematographer caught a fever during the shoot and could not work for two weeks.

Which playwright polished most of The Last Crusade's dialogue under the pen name Barry Watson?

Tom Stoppard also created the Panama Hat villain who links the young and grown-up Indy in the prologue. The credited screenplay is by Jeffrey Boam.

The Last Crusade's canyon temple lies in which real state that joined Turkey in 1939?

Hatay lasted less than a year as a republic before voting to join Turkey. The film invents a sultan to rule it, played by Alexei Sayle.

Which stuntman doubled for Harrison Ford in the first three Indiana Jones films and for Superman?

Vic Armstrong filled in for crucial action scenes when the star was hurt during Temple of Doom. His leap from a galloping horse in The Last Crusade was voted one of the ten best film stunts.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Nazi U-boat carries the Ark to an island in which sea?

The Aegean Sea island is where the Ark is opened as a test before it can be handed to the Nazi leadership. Real wartime U-boat pens at La Rochelle in France played the dock.

Throughout The Last Crusade, Indy's father keeps calling him which nickname that he cannot stand?

Junior is all his father will call him until the film's last minutes, when he finally says Indiana. In the fourth film Indy uses the same word on his own son.

As the Nazis open the Ark in Raiders, what does Indy urgently tell Marion to do?

Shut her eyes: the order saves them both, since everyone who watches the Ark open is killed. When the pair look again, the bodies and their own bindings have vanished.

On the broken rope bridge in Temple of Doom, Indy makes the relics burn by invoking which Hindu god?

Shiva is the god Indy calls on, and the relics glow hot enough to burn through his satchel. Two fall into the gorge, and the one the villain grabs scorches his hand.

In The Last Crusade, who warns Indy that the sacred cup must never be carried past the great seal?

The temple's knight has guarded the cup for centuries since drinking from it during the Crusades. Elsa ignores his warning, and the temple begins to collapse around them.

In Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Irina Spalko tells Indy she wants the skulls in order to do what?

Beam propaganda into minds: she believes the skulls can push Soviet thinking straight into American heads. The knowledge she demands at the end vaporizes her instead.

In Dial of Destiny, Jürgen Voller explains that he will travel to 1939 to assassinate which leader?

Adolf Hitler is the target because Voller, a Nazi himself, blames him for losing the war. He plans to take charge and avoid the mistakes that cost Germany victory.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, who calls Indy's bluff when he threatens to blow up the Ark?

Belloq guesses that Indy could never destroy something so historic, and that he wants to see the Ark's power for himself. Indy lowers his rocket launcher and surrenders.

In The Last Crusade's prologue, the grave robber who beats young Indy consoles him with which gift?

His fedora is the grave robber's way of admitting respect for the scrappy boy. The story then jumps 26 years to 1938, with the grown Indy chasing the same cross.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, a cheerful Sallah sings tunes from which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta?

H.M.S. Pinafore supplies the songs Sallah belts out in his baritone when he is in a good mood. The actor was told to play him as a cross between Falstaff and his own Shōgun role.

Which businessman, played by Julian Glover, hires Indy in The Last Crusade before betraying him?

Walter Donovan wants the cup for eternal life, but he drinks from the wrong one and ages to dust in seconds. Elsa hands him the false cup on purpose.

Raiders of the Lost Ark built its interior sets at which English studio in Hertfordshire?

Elstree was chosen because its artists and technicians had already worked on Star Wars. The booby-trapped jungle temple of the opening was built there.

In the game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Indy infiltrates which tiny European state?

Vatican City is one of the game's large open areas, alongside the pyramids of Giza and Sukhothai. The story is set in 1937, between the events of the first and third films.