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Raiders of the Lost Ark DVD Cover Download “Raiders of the Lost Ark” 1981	Actors: Harrison Ford Indiana Jones Karen Allen Marion Ravenwood Paul Freeman Dr. Rene Belloq Ronald Lacey Major Arnold Toht John Rhys-Davies Sallah Denholm Elliott Dr. Marcus Brody Alfred Molina Satipo Wolf Kahler Colonel Dietrich Anthony Higgins Gobler Vic Tablian Barranca/Monkey Man Don Fellows Col. Musgrove William Hootkins Major Eaton Bill Reimbold Bureaucrat Fred Sorenson Jock Patrick Durkin Australian Climber
	Directors: Steven Spielberg
	IMDB Rating: 8.7/10 out of 228,993 votes

“Raiders of the Lost Ark” 1981 by Steven Spielberg – Movie Goofs

“Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark” Plot Summary

Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.

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• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: Obvious rubber dummy of Belloq when he explodes after opening the Ark. Note especially the fingers of his left hand, as he explodes.
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Toht’s face is melting when the Ark is opened, his glasses fall to his collar too quickly. This is due to the shot being filmed via a time-lapse technique (see Trivia entry).
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: At the very end, an old man carts the Ark down the warehouse alone to store the artifact. The Ark’s weight should take at least two men to unload it from the wagon and set it on the floor.
• Continuity: Position of medallion’s chain when Marion pulls it out of her blouse.
• Continuity: During the encounter with the massive, sword-wielding Arab in the market, Indy’s shirt is untucked/tucked between shots and his holster disappears/reappears.
• Revealing mistakes: The exploding truck has a pole launched out of the bottom of it to make it flip over.
• Continuity: The staff is supposed to be 60 inches tall (6 kadams = 72 inches, minus 1 kadam). The pole that Indy inserts into the hole in the map room towers over his head, indicating (incorrectly) that Indy is less than five feet tall. The laserdisc edition disproves any claim that he’s standing on a lower step.
• Continuity: In the scene in Marion’s bar, when Indiana ducks behind a corner, the type of pistol he is shooting changes with every cut.
• Continuity: During the basket sequence, the sweat marks on Indy’s back shrink and grow from shot to shot.
• Continuity: After trapping Indy in the Well of Souls, Belloq’s hat jumps from his hand to the ground.
• Revealing mistakes: Glass wall between Indy & Marion and the snakes. Some, but not all examples have been erased in the 2003 DVD edition.
• Crew or equipment visible: When Indy is holding onto the front of the truck with the wheel between his legs after being thrown out of the window, a shot of his back reveals the small wooden seat he is sitting on.
• Continuity: Blood on the truck windshield when Indy is shot in the shoulder.
• Continuity: Following being chased by the natives through the jungle outside the temple, when Indy escapes on the airplane, it is clearly the middle of the day. Just one frame later, the time of day has become sunset.
• Revealing mistakes: When Indy is imprisoned in the underground ruins there is far too much light in the room. The only source of light was Indy’s torch, which could not have emitted nearly enough light to fill the entire room. Furthermore, the room remains well-lit even after the torch goes out.
• Continuity: When Marion hides in the wicker basket, the top of the basket is on slightly crooked. In the very next frame it’s totally straight.
• Continuity: Indy and Marion board the ship bound for England during the night, but right after we shift to a shot of them in their quarters, daylight is coming in through the shutters.
• Continuity: In the gunfight near the end of the movie, Indy’s gun is alternately a revolver and a semi-auto pistol between shots. While it’s possible Indy could be carrying two guns, it’s not likely he’d switch between them in the heat of battle.
• Continuity: Luggage rack detaches itself from the truck when Indy collides with the water trough, but it’s fixed in subsequent shots.
• Revealing mistakes: The plane that is circling on the ground is driven by a chain around its wheels.
• Revealing mistakes: When Indy is sliding underneath the truck, the trench that was made to prevent the stunt actor from striking the vehicle can be seen.
• Revealing mistakes: When Indiana Jones falls from the truck (which is traveling forward at 40 mph) he rolls backward – in violation of physics. When you jump from a moving vehicle you actually roll in the direction the vehicle was moving.
• Continuity: During the truck chase scene: After the German soldier shoots Indiana in the arm, he punches him several times, Indy’s blood appears and then disappears from the German soldier’s knuckles.
• Continuity: The water on the driver’s-side window during the truck chase scene comes and goes between shots.
• Continuity: When Indy first enters the Wells of Souls, the position of the rope Sallah is holding is at the lower part of hole but as he descends into the Well, it is positioned from the top.
• Revealing mistakes: When the slab is being put back on the well of souls sealing Indy and Marion in the well, you can see the wood grain of the plywood that makes the “stone” slab.
• Continuity: When the slab is removed from the roof of the Well of Souls, we can see that it fits into a network of supports. When the ceiling is shown from below we should see a cross pattern of supports as well as the slabs, however we only see the slabs. There is no interior support for the slabs.
• Continuity: When Indiana Jones enters the Map Room, he first throws the staff in, and then climbs down the rope. In the next scene, the staff is leaning against the wall when he takes it back, which is virtually impossible.
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the truck chase, the heads of the approaching German soldiers are level with the top of the truck. Just as Indy looks into his side mirror, they crouch down, so their position in the mirrors is correct.
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While tradition has it that only ritually pure members of Jewish priestly families were able to even touch the Ark, let alone carry it, nobody is seen touching it directly (except when it’s opened); it’s either carried on poles while covered with cloth or inside a packing crate.
• Continuity: When Indy is climbing on the pontoon of the sea plane, his clothes appear completely dry, though he was just in the water and in the scene before the clothes appeared completely wet.
• Continuity: During the scene where Indy shoots the large swordsman, he arrives with his right shoulder facing the swordsman, but immediately in the next shot, his left side is facing the swordsman.
• Continuity: In the scene on Mr. Katanga’s ship, Indy points to his forehead, identifying it to Marion as a part of his body without pain and therefore kissable. Marion reaches for his hat with her left hand. After the cut, she is removing his hat with her right hand.
• Crew or equipment visible: In the opening sequence, when Indy is being chased by the large boulder, you can see the pole that is turning/guiding it.
• Continuity: When Indy is at home, preparing to leave to search for the Ark, he unrolls a handgun from a cloth. The handgun is poised to fall into one hand but the next second it’s in the other.
• Continuity: Marion’s confrontation with the “bad guy” brandishing a knife in the market place. The knife stays in the same hand but curves up and down in alternating shots.
• Continuity: During the “Desert Chase” when the chase moves out into the open desert, a shot of the front of the vehicles shows the reflection of trees in the windshield.
• Anachronisms: Although filmmakers supposedly removed all antennae from the buildings in the Cairo scenes, one is visible (although out of focus) over Indy’s left shoulder as he has his first conversation with Sallah. They appear in the alleyways in Cairo as well.
• Crew or equipment visible: As Indiana climbs the slope below the entrance to the temple in the beginning of the movie, a safety line is clearly visible and the vegetation hanging down follows the line up as he climbs.
• Continuity: When Indy speaks to the government men in the lecture hall, he places his large book on the table. One of the two straps holding it closed is undone. When he takes the book to show them a picture of the Ark, both straps are again closed.
• Continuity: The students in Indy’s lecture hall change positions in various shots. The student with the apple, seen coming down the far aisle when the lecture ends, is clearly sitting in the middle of the front row earlier in the scene. The girl who has written on her eyelids is in the middle of the room when Indy first sees her but in the row by the windows later.
• Continuity: When Belloq begins to raise the gold idol in a long shot, the idol has several cobwebs stuck to it. In the next shot, a close-up, the cobwebs are gone.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the German officer tells Gobler that he wants “plenty of protection” for the Ark, we hear Gobler answer “Jawohl, Herr Oberst!” but his lips don’t move.
• Anachronisms: When Indy and the monkey are getting drunk after the truck carrying Marion has

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