- "Alaaaaaaaaaarm!"
- ―Female Officer at Castle[src]
The Female Officer at Castle was apparently the ranking officer in Castle Brunwald's secret communications room in 1938.
Biography[]
Sometime after 1934,[2] this female officer joined the Schutzstaffel branch within the Nazi Party's ranks.[1]
While trying to escape from the fiery blaze consuming the dining room of Castle Brunwald in 1938, Indiana Jones and his father Henry accidentally triggered a secret passage through the fireplace and stumbled upon a communications room. There, the female Schutzstaffel officer led the monitoring of Nazi agents[1] and saboteurs in Czechoslovakia and Poland, in preparation for blitzes into both countries.[3]
The officer and her men are confronted by the flames.
Feeling a wave of warmth travelling to her from the wall, the surprised and puzzled[4] officer slowly turned around and noticed the Joneses. Wen they smiled nervously at her, she returned it with a rather toothy grin of her own before alerting her men. The Nazis pursued the pair back through the passageway, where the Jonses hid in an open spot above it and retreated back into the communications room. As the Nazis attempted to give chase, Indy used a bust of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler to jam the door, preventing the officer and her men from returning and leaving them at the mercy of the flames.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
The Female Officer at Castle was portrayed by Nicola Scott in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.[1] Scott is the daughter of the late Elliot Scott, who worked as art director on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.[5] During the development of Jeffrey Boam's original script for the film, her role was fulfilled by a Radioman.
The female officer's presence and position in the film, where she is shown to give orders to the other soldiers in the room, is anachronistic. The real Schutzstaffel didn't allow women any position of power in 1938, the year in which the film is set. Although the character's rank is never mentioned in the film itself, her epaulettes indicate that she is a lieutenant, although it's unclear what grade.[1]
The character's coordination activities for upcoming attacks in central and eastern Europe as mentioned in Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide, likely refers to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia and Invasion of Poland, respectively.[3]
She doesn't appear in Rob MacGregor's novelization. There, all of the Nazi communications officers are men, with the radioman filling her role realizing the Joneses' presence the moment they first get into the room while sitting on his chair. The novel mentions all of the men scream upon being sealed, implying they did die.[6] The same applies to Les Martin's 1989 junior novelization.[7] She is too absent from LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, in which she is replaced with various male Nazi officers and an Enemy Radio Operator.[8]
Appearances[]
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (First appearance)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 2008 junior novel
Sources[]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- ↑ Rudolf Reingold explicitly states to Alecia Dunstin in Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth, which takes place in 1934, that the Schutzstaffel would never have women in their ranks. As this female officer is clearly part of the SS during the events of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade which take place in 1938, this means she and any other female SS members didn't start working for the organization until sometime after 1934.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 2008 junior novel
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade novel
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade junior novel (1989)
- ↑ LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures