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     Cast & ascribeIndiana Jones Harrison Ford Henry Jones Sean Connery Marcus Brody Denholm Elliott Elsa Schneider Alison Doody Young Indy River Phoenix Sallah gutter Rhys-Davies predominant Presents A Film Directed By Steven Spielberg. Executive Producers George Lucas And Frank Marshall. written By Jeffrey Boam. Edited By Michael Kahn. Photographed By Douglas Slocombe. Music By John Williams. Running Time 125 Minutes. Classified PG-13. Printer- takeoff rocketly E-mail this to a friend There is a certain style of illustration that appeared in the boys game magazines of the 1940s - in those innocent publications that feel been replaced by magazines on meretricious lifestyles and movie monsters. The illustrations were forever about the same. They showed a small group of murky men hovering over a treasure trove with greedy grins on their bearded faces, while in the foreground, twain teenage boys peered out from arsehole a rock in wonder and astonishm ent. The point of view was always over the boys shoulders the reader was invited to share this forbidden glimpse of the secret piece of men."Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" begins with just such a stab director Steven Spielberg must have been paging through his old issues of Boys lifetime and Thrilling Wonder Tales, down in the basement.As I watched it, I felt a real delight, because recent Hollywood escapist movies have become too jaded and cynical, and they have lost the feeling that you canister stumble over astounding adventures just by going on a hike with your Scout troop.Spielberg lights the scene in the strong, basic colorise of old pulp magazines. When the swarthy men bend over their discovery, it seems to insolence with a light of its own, which bathes their faces in a golden glow. This is the kind of significance that can actually justify a line like Its mine All mine - although Spielberg does not go so far.One of the two kids behind the boulder is, of course, the young Indiana Jones. But he is discover by explorers plundering an ancient treasure, and escapes just in the nick of time. The duration ends as an adult claps a battered fedora down on Indianas head, and then we flash forward to the era of World War II.The open sequence of this third Indiana Jones movie is the only one that seems authentically original - or perhaps I should say, it recycles images from 1940s pulps and serials that Spielberg has not borrowed before.