While the article is based on canonical information, the actual subject lacks a formal identifier or nickname in official sources.
The Citroën owner was an elderly man who owned a Citroën 11 Légère Cabriolet.
Biography[]
In 1938, while driving his car along a dirt road in the hills near the coast, the man's vehicle suffered from a flat tire. As he was changing the tire, he looked up to notice several Nazi fighter planes circling the area. Just as he was about to re-attach the hubcap, his car started up and drove off, stolen by a younger man in a fedora and an older man.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
The role of the elderly man changing his tire in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was not credited and has no lines.[1]
In the comic book adaptation by Marvel Comics, the man is pulled away from his car by Indiana Jones. He is also depicted wearing Western clothes and appears to be German, due to his voice reaction and Indiana naming him Fritz.[2] In Les Martin's 1989 junior novelization, the Joneses come across the man directly, who is frozen in shock and open-mouthed due to how they crashed (implying the house they crashed may have been his) just as he was in the middle of opening his car, leading Indy to offer him their plane for his car and elbowing past him without waiting for an answer.[3] Anne Digby's storybook has the man replaced by a tottered Turkish customer from a tavern (which replaces the house the Joneses crashed in) who owns the car the Joneses steal, so Indy elbows him out of his way so he and his father can steal his car.[4]
Appearances[]
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade comic
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 2008 junior novel