Stanley Corda was a college professor who was a colleague of Indiana Jones.
Biography[]
In 1933, Stanley Corda first began working at a college where he first met Indiana Jones.
Ten years later, in March 1943, Corda found the entrance to El Dorado following a plane crash. He returned with some gold and sold it on to a pawn shop owner unaware that the treasure carried lethal amounts of radiation.
On June 9, Corda hired some henchmen of the gangster Ramos, to help him relocate El Dorado. Days later, on the 18th, he found a group of Navato-Indians on the Rio Mamore river, and tried to convince them to reveal the location of the gold. When the chief refused to say Corda shot a fighter of the Navatos in anger, and kidnapped their princess (who he later returned). On June 26, after he had rediscovered El Dorado, Corda and his wife, Marian succumbed to radiation sickness.
Behind the scenes[]
Corda's surname is misspelled as Korda on the back cover of Indiana Jones und das Gold von El Dorado.