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==Synopsis== ===Prologue: Utah, 1912=== [[File:Youngindy_crusade.JPG|left|thumb|Young Indy]] The film starts in [[1912]] with [[Indiana Jones|Indy]] ([[River Phoenix]]) as a [[Boy Scout]] in a failed attempt to retrieve the [[Cross of Coronado]] from [[Fedora's Gang|treasure hunters]]. After stealing the Cross from [[Fedora (individual)|Fedora]] and escaping across the countryside on [[horse]]back and [[circus train]], Indy returns home, only to have the local [[sheriff]] reclaim the Cross for Fedora and his client, [[Panama Hat]]. The small adventure inspires his [[bullwhip|whip]], [[Ophidiophobia|fear of snakes]], [[fedora]] (and style of dress), and even the scar on his chin. ===Portuguese Coast, 1938=== [[File:Jones portugal 1938.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Jones aboard the ''Vasquez de Coronado''.]] The story then advances to [[1938]], two years after the events in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', with Indy ([[Harrison Ford]]) now a grown man. He successfully retrieves the Cross from [[Panama Hat]] (leaving Panama Hat to die on the boat explosion in the process) and after returning to [[Barnett College]], donates it to [[Marcus Brody]]'s ([[Denholm Elliott]]) museum. ===Venice, Italy=== [[Walter Donovan]] ([[Julian Glover]]) informs Indy that his father, [[Henry Walton Jones, Senior|Henry Jones, Sr.]] ([[Sean Connery]]), has vanished while searching for the [[Holy Grail]], which Donovan believes has the power to grant eternal life. Indy is shown half of an ancient tablet, a marker leading to the Grail, and told that the other one is buried with the [[Grail Knight|knight]]'s dead brother. Indy and Marcus travel to Venice to meet [[Elsa Schneider|Dr. Elsa Schneider]] ([[Alison Doody]]) to follow the footsteps of his father. Below the [[Biblioteca di San Barnaba|library]] where his father was last seen, Indy discovers the tomb of a knight of the "First Crusade" which holds the second marker with information needed to begin the quest for the Grail. Indy encounters the [[Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword]], a secret and fanatical religious cult determined to protect the Grail at all costs. Their leader, [[Kazim]] ([[Kevork Malikyan]]), tells him that his father is being held in Brunwald Castle near the Austrian-German border. ===German border=== At [[Castle Brunwald]] on the [[Germany|German]]-[[Austria]]n border, Jones discovers that the castle is actually a Nazi command center. Jones rescues his father from captivity but both are captured by [[Ernst Vogel|Vogel]], a Nazi colonel, when betrayed by Schneider. They are taken to Donovan, who is also working for the Nazis. His father had been kidnapped in Venice when he realized Schneider's true allegiances. Schneider ties up the Joneses and kisses Indiana goodbye, while Vogel punches him in the head as a farewell. Left alone in the castle, Indy and his father start a fire and escape on motorcycle, crossing into Germany. [[File:SituationHasNotImproved.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Indy and his father trapped at Castle Brunwald.]] The two head for [[Berlin]] in order to retrieve his father's [[Grail diary]], taken there by Schneider to show their mission's progress to the [[Adolf Hitler|Fuhrer]]. In Berlin, Jones recovers the diary by grabbing and cornering Elsa and then forcing her to give the diary back to him. As the two try to exit the city, a disguised Jones narrowly escapes at one point as he comes face to face with Hitler. Meanwhile, the Nazis capture Brody in [[Iskenderun]] and obtain the map that Brody had taken from the Grail diary. Indiana Jones and his father board a [[D-138|zeppelin]] for [[Athens]], to get out of Germany, but Colonel Vogel has tracked them down and searches the zeppelin for them. Disguised as a ticket taker, Jones punches out the colonel and tosses him off the airship. During their flight, Henry reveals that the diary has information about three booby traps in the temple that the Grail is kept in, and he and Indy slowly begin to reconcile their differences. However, the zeppelin turns back toward Germany, and the pair escape in a [[German biplane|biplane]] moored to the airship. A pair of [[Pilatus P-2|Nazi fighters]] chase their slower biplane. Henry tries to shoot them down, but shoots up their own plane instead, forcing them to crash-land. Stealing a [[Citroën 11 Légère Cabriolet|car]], the Joneses managed to destroy the pursuing planes, and travel to re-unite with Sallah. ===Hatay=== Arriving in [[Iskenderun]], [[Hatay]], the Nazi party attempt to negotiate a treaty with the Sultan by offering him a treasure chest in exchange for safe unopposed passage through his territory. The Sultan declines the treasure chest incentive in favor of one of the Nazi party's escort vehicles, a [[Rolls-Royce Phantom II]] (which ironically and comically has less commercial value than the treasure chest), of which he is technically familiar with and very fond of. The Nazi party agrees to the trade and they are granted passage as well as additional camels, horses, armed escorts, provisions, desert terrain vehicles, and tanks. Then using the captured map, the Nazi team, led by Donovan, Schneider, and Vogel, with a captive Brody, begin the Grail quest in [[Hatay]]. As they head out in search of the [[Canyon of the Crescent Moon]], they are ambushed by Kazim and the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword. Using the battle as a distraction, Indiana Jones and Sallah try to steal some horses from the Nazi caravan, while Henry attempts to rescue Brody, who has been imprisoned in a [[Mark VII Tank|tank]]. Henry ends up getting captured by the Nazis, who successfully defeat the Brotherhood's men, with a dying Kazim delivering a fateful warning to Donovan and Schneider. [[File:crusadetank.jpg|thumb|left|Indy fighting a Nazi aboard the Hatay tank.]] Indiana attempts to rescue his father and Brody from the tank, managing to leap from his horse onto the side of the tank. Brody and the elder Jones cause disruptions inside the tank, and eventually Indy ends up in a duel with Vogel on top of the tank. Henry Jones and Brody manage to get off the tank, which then falls off of a cliff with Jones and Vogel aboard. With his father, Brody, and Sallah peering over the cliff, believing that Indiana had perished alongside Vogel, Indiana climbs onto the cliff edge, having jumped from the tank before it fell. The four reach the Canyon of the Crescent Moon where the [[Temple of the Sun|secret temple]] that houses the Grail is located. Inside the temple, they spy on Donovan's party attempting to enter the Grail chamber, but being stopped by its defensive traps. The four are captured and Donovan shoots Henry, forcing Indiana to face a set of challenges and retrieve the Grail to save his father's life with its healing powers. Indy, guided by his recollection of his father's diary, surpasses the three challenges, and enters a room with Holy Grail hidden amongst many false grails and an ancient [[Grail Knight|knight]] guarding the Grail. With the traps disabled, Donovan and Schneider follow Jones into the Grail chamber. Donovan allows Schneider to choose out the Grail for him, and she selects a [[False Grail|golden, bejeweled grail]] which Donovan drinks from. The grail turned out to be a false one and Donovan ages rapidly, and dies trying to grab Schneider. [[File:Henry drinks from the grail indy.jpg|thumb|Jones heals his father's wounds with the Grail.]] With death on the line, Indiana Jones picks the true Grail, a plain carpenter's cup, and takes a sip. The knight affirms Jones' selection but warns him not to let the Grail go "past the [[Great Seal]]" in the temple entrance, as it is the boundary of immortality. Jones takes the Grail with the holy water and heals his mortally-wounded father. This action frightens the Hatay soldiers and Sallah is able to disarm them and the remaining Nazis. Schneider picks up the unattended Grail and tries to leave with it, crossing the Great Seal. The temple begins to quake, and the ground opens up. The Grail falls into a crevasse and Schneider dives after it. Jones grabs her and tries to pull her up, but as she tries to reach for the grail, she falls into the abyss. After another large tremor, Jones falls into the crack, within reach of the Grail, unaware he is about to fall in, but his father, now holding onto him, simply says "''Indiana, Indiana...let it go''". Finally realizing that his father cares more about him than the Grail, Jones turns and lets his father pull him to safety and the four adventurers escape from the crumbling temple, leaving behind the Grail knight. The adventure ends with Henry revealing that "Indiana" was the [[Indiana|family dog]]'s name; Indy, his father, Sallah, and Marcus ride out of the canyon and off into the sunset.
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