Crooked Table Podcast: ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ and the Indiana Jones series (feat. Craig Price)

After spending all of 2019 covering the Star Wars saga, we finally crack the whip on George Lucas’ other beloved creation. Together with director Steven Spielberg and star Harrison Ford, Lucas created one of cinema’s most iconic action heroes in Indiana Jones. That’s right. This episode, it’s all Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Craig Price of Matinee Heroes joins the show to discuss that 1981 adventure film. And along the way, we’ll discuss just about everything else about the Indiana Jones series too, from the undeniable impact of Raiders itself to whether director James Mangold (Logan) has what it takes to make the fifth — and presumably final — entry in the series.

So listen in as we discuss the original Indy movie and his subsequent adventures too!

SYNOPSIS

In this epic tale, an intrepid archaeologist (Harrison Ford) tries to beat a band of Nazis to a unique religious relic which is central to their plans for world domination. Battling against a snake phobia and a vengeful ex-girlfriend (Karen Allen), Indiana Jones is in constant peril, making hair’s-breadth escapes at every turn in this celebration of the innocent adventure movies of an earlier era.