Stars:
Harrison Ford,
Sean Connery,
Alison Doody,
Denholm Elliott,
John Rhys Davies,
Julian Glover,
River Phoenix,
Michael Byrne,
Kevork Malikyan,
Richard Young,
Alexei Sayle,
Alex Hyde-White,
Paul Maxwell,
Isla Blair,
Vernon Dobtcheff,
Bradley Gregg
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Summary: The Indiana Jones trilogy reaches its gripping climax with the fearless archeologist once again pitted against the Nazis as he musters up every last ounce of cunning and courage to rescue his father and the mythical Holy Grail from their evil clutches.
Steven Spielberg's third action-packed entry in the Indiana Jones trilogy evokes the cliffhanger Saturday matinee serials of yesteryear. It's 1938 and Indy (Harrison Ford) receives word that his archaeologist dad, Professor Henry Jones (Sean Connery), has disappeared while on a quest for the Holy Grail. Indy embarks on a search for both his dad and the much-coveted artefact. THE LAST CRUSADE has a unique twist to the series' traditional opening-sequence cliffhanger. Actor River Phoenix plays an adolescent Indy who, while on a field trip with his Boy Scout troop, finds adventure on a circus train. Spielberg wanted to make the film about a father-and-son relationship, and Connery was his first choice to play Indy's dad. The selection was perfect, considering Spielberg and producer George Lucas first came up with the idea of the series as a rival to the James Bond movies in which Connery had starred. Before shooting THE LAST CRUSADE, Spielberg was planning on directing RAIN MAN with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise but gave up the project to fulfil his contractual obligation with Lucas to make a third Indiana Jones movie.