General Tengtu Hok was a warlord based out of Shanghai, China who, until 1936, owned one half of the Headpiece to the Staff of Ra.
Biography[]
In 1936, the American archaeologist Indiana Jones broke into the museum at Tengtu Hok's palace to claim the piece for himself while the warlord was meeting with German agents sent by the Nazis also looking to gain access to Hok's collection.[1]
Samurai in the general's service attacked Jones during his attempt to take the artifact and a gong sounded the alarm. Hok and the Germans rushed to the museum but Hok took matters into his own hands and locked the Germans outside while arming himself with a Thompson submachine gun. Hok sprayed his museum with bullets but Jones was able to take the headpiece section and escaped through a window, using the gong that had alerted Hok to his presence as a shield.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
Tengtu Hok was part of a sequence originally scripted and storyboarded for Raiders of the Lost Ark that went unused in the final product.[1] While some of the elements would later be recycled for the Club Obi Wan scenes in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, such as a large rolling gong protecting Indiana Jones from machine gun fire, Tengtu Hok was not kept.[2]
However, the idea of a Chinese warlord in possession of the Staff of Ra headpiece was later intended to be resurrected for the plot of the comic Indiana Jones and the Lost Horizon in which Jones and his mentor, Abner Ravenwood, would recover the piece in Tibet. The story went unproduced when Dark Horse Comics ended the Indiana Jones comic line.[3]
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Sources[]
Raiders of the Lost Scene on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)- The Complete Making of Indiana Jones
- Indiana Jones: The Official Magazine 3
- Indiana Jones: The Official Magazine 4
- Indiana Jones: The Official Magazine 5