Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88515 in DVD
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: Arabic, English, German, Greek, Hebrew, Nepali, Spanish

Customer Reviews

Raiders of the Lost Ark
America entered a conservative period after the Iranian hostage crisis. Ronald Reagan became president, and Raiders was the big movie. It is a throwback to the serials and politics of 1936. Harrison Ford is archaeologist Indiana Jones. The Jones character is a fedora-wearing, bull whip-slinging, adventurer who fights Nazis while traveling the world in search of ancient treasures. The Ark is the chest which held the Ten Commandments. The Nazis want it because legend has it that any army which possesses it will be invincible. Indy's droll instincts save the movie. Shooting the sword-wielding Arab was unexpected. The close calls and narrow escapes are numbing.

The greatest adventure film of all time!
It ever there was a solid 5-star film, this is it.

Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is a semi-ethical archaeologist who is commissioned by the U.S. Government to retrieve The Lost Ark of the Covenant from an Egyptian tomb before the rotten Nazis can get their hands on it. The sacred and dangerous Ark gets bounced around here and there and so does Jones.

This film has it all -- the flavour of an old-time Saturday matinee cliffhanger serial, but also offering superb color cinematogragraphy, incredible sets, perfect casting, and on and on. I can hardly say enough good about it.

If I have an issue, it's that you apparently have to buy the Indiana Jones Boxed set (3 movies) to get this one in the Region 1 release. So that's sort of a stinky bummer. The other two movies are okay, but not of the caliber of this one.

To me, this is one of the top films of all time of ANY genre. You can watch this one with equal glee over and over.

Still enjoying it after all these years
Just the other night my husband told me that he recalled sitting down in the theatre as a young teen to watch this show he knew nothing about. Spellbound, not sitting back, not buying pop corn - he enjoyed one action scene after another. I am witnessing the same magic through my nephew. I enjoy seeing it again and again. Nothing beats the original.