Where to watch Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is available to stream in ES on Movistar+, HBO Max and SkyShowtime. It can also be rented or bought from Amazon and AppleTV.
In 1938, an archaeologist begins a globe-spanning search for a legendary relic after his historian father disappears while pursuing it. Following clues from an old notebook, he teams up with an academic and trusted allies while racing to prevent the Nazis from claiming the relic’s fabled power.
Cast: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, Michael Byrne, Kevork Malikyan, Robert Eddison, Richard Young, Alexei Sayle
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Trivia & production notes
- Steven Spielberg had to turn down directing Big and Rain Man due to his commitment to the Last Crusade.
- Chris Columbus's early script featured Indiana Jones battling a ghost in Scotland and searching for the Fountain of Youth in Africa, with a Monkey King as the magical force that resurrects Indiana after his death.
- Spielberg and Lucas abandoned the Monkey King storyline because it depicted African natives negatively and was too unrealistic, with Spielberg feeling the material made him feel too old to direct.
- Menno Meyjes was hired to write a new script on January 1, 1986, and completed it ten months later with a focus on Indiana searching for his missing father rather than just the Grail.
- Jeffrey Boam rewrote the script after spending two weeks with George Lucas, suggesting that Indiana should find his father midway through the film and ultimately lose the Grail, making the father-son relationship the central story rather than the artifact itself.
- River Phoenix was cast as young Indiana Jones in the prologue, and Spielberg specifically suggested making the character a Boy Scout because both he and Harrison Ford had been Scouts themselves.
- The scar on Indiana Jones's chin came from him accidentally lashing himself with his whip in the prologue, mirroring Harrison Ford's real-life scar acquired in a car accident.
- The train car Indiana escapes through in the prologue is called Doctor Fantasy's Magic Caboose, named after the stage name Frank Marshall used when performing magic tricks.
- Playwright Tom Stoppard rewrote the script under the pen name Barry Watson in May 1988, polishing the dialogue and creating the Panama Hat character to serve as a connecting element between the young and adult Indiana sequences.
- The leap of faith sequence and stone-stepping trials in the Grail temple were added during Tom Stoppard's rewrites rather than being part of earlier drafts.
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