Contest: Indiana Jones – The Adventure Collection

Posted on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta

Paramount has provided us with FIVE COPIES of Indiana Jones – The Adventure Collection on DVD, which hit store shelves on May 13th 2008. How do you enter to win? It’s easy:

1. You send us an e-mail at slashfilm@gmail.com with your name and address. Please include Indiana Jones in the subject of your email.

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It’s that easy! On June 2nd we will pick FIVE winners at random. We will be checking the winner’s email address up against our newsletter subscriptions, and those who don’t have an active subscription will be disqualified. You are not obligated to remain a subscriber, and can unsubscribe any time after June 2nd if you wish. Contest is open to U.S. readers only. More information on the DVD release below.

Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a  booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling boulder) to fetch a solid-gold idol. He loses this artifact to his chief rival, a French archeologist named Belloq (Paul Freeman), who then prepares to kill our hero. In the first of many serial-like escapes, Indy eludes Belloq by hopping into a convenient plane. So, then: is Indiana Jones afraid of anything? Yes, snakes. The next time we see Jones, he’s a soft-spoken, bespectacled professor. He is then summoned from his ivy-covered environs by Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott) to find the long-lost Ark of the Covenant.  The Nazis, it seems, are already searching for the Ark, which the mystical-minded Hitler hopes to use to make his storm troopers invincible. But to find the Ark, Indy must first secure a medallion kept under the protection of Indy’s old friend Abner Ravenwood, whose daughter, Marion (Karen Allen), evidently has a “history” with Jones. Whatever their personal differences, Indy and Marion become partners in one action-packed adventure after another, ranging from wandering the snake pits of the Well of Souls to surviving the pyrotechnic unearthing of the sacred Ark.  A joint project of Hollywood prodigies George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, with a script co-written by Lawrence Kasdan and Philip Kaufman, among others,  RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK is not so much a movie as a 115-minute thrill ride. Costing $22 million (nearly three times the original estimate), RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK reaped $200 million during its first run.  It was followed by INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1985) and INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989).
Supplemental Features

* Widescreen Format
* Bilingual in Canada
* Special Features:
o Raiders of the Lost Ark: An Introduction
o Indiana Jones: An Appreciation
o Indy IV Looks Back at the Original Trilogy
o Raiders: The Melting Face!
o Storyboard Sequence – The Well of Souls
o Galleries (still frames): Illustrations and Props, Production Photographs & Portraits, Effects/ILM and Marketing
o Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures