Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

**Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade** is a UK VHS release by CIC Video and Paramount. It was first released on Rental on 26th March 1990. It was re-released on Sell Through on 30th July 1990. It was again re-released on 16th November 1992 and again on 4th October 1993. The final VHS re-release by Paramount was on 13th March 2000.

## Cast

* Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones: The archaeologist adventurer who seeks to rescue his father and find the Holy Grail. Ford said he loved the idea of introducing Indiana's father because it allowed him to explore another side to Indiana's personality: "These are men who have never made any accommodation to each other. Indy behaves differently in his father's presence. Who else would dare call Indy 'junior'?"
	+ River Phoenix as the teenage Jones. Phoenix had portrayed the son of Ford's character in *The Mosquito Coast* (1986). Ford recommended Phoenix for the part; he said that of the young actors working at the time, Phoenix looked the most like him when he was around that age.
* Sean Connery as Professor Henry Jones: Indiana's father, a professor of Medieval literature who cared more about looking for the Grail than raising his son. Spielberg had Connery in mind when he suggested introducing Indiana's father, though he did not tell Lucas at first. Consequently, Lucas wrote the role as "a crazy, eccentric" professor resembling Laurence Olivier, whose relationship with Indiana is "strict schoolmaster and student rather than a father and son". Spielberg had been a fan of Connery's work as James Bond and felt that no one else could perform the role as well. Spielberg biographer Joseph McBride wrote, "Connery was already the father of Indiana Jones since the series had sprung from the desire of Lucas and Spielberg to rival (and outdo) Connery's *James Bond* movies." Connery initially turned the role down as he is only twelve years older than Ford, but he relented. Connery—a student of history—began to reshape the character, and revisions were made to the script to address his concerns. "I wanted to play Henry Jones as a kind of Sir Richard [Francis] Burton," Connery commented. "I was bound to have fun with the role of a gruff, Victorian Scottish father." Connery believed Henry should be a match for his son, telling Spielberg that "whatever Indy'd done my character has done and my character has done it better". Connery signed to the film on March 25, 1988. He improvised the line, "She talks in her sleep", which was left in because it made everyone laugh; in Boam's scripts, Henry telling Indiana that he slept with Elsa occurs later.
	+ Alex Hyde-White as Young Henry Jones Sr.
* Alison Doody as Dr. Elsa Schneider: An Austrian art professor who is in league with the Nazis. She seduces the Joneses to trick them. Doody was 21 when she auditioned and was one of the first actresses who met for the part.
* Denholm Elliott as Dr. Marcus Brody: Indiana's bumbling English colleague. Elliott returned after Spielberg sought to recapture the tone of *Raiders of the Lost Ark* (1981), following the actor's absence in the darker *Temple of Doom* (1984).
* John Rhys-Davies as Sallah: A friend of Indiana and a professional excavator living in Cairo. Like Elliott's, Rhys-Davies' return was an attempt to recapture the spirit of *Raiders of the Lost Ark*.
* Julian Glover as Walter Donovan: An American businessman who sends the Joneses on their quest for the Holy Grail. Donovan works for the Nazis and desires immortality. Glover previously appeared as General Veers in Lucas' *The Empire Strikes Back*. He originally auditioned for the role of Vogel. Glover, who is English, adopted an American accent for the film, but was dissatisfied with the result.
* Michael Byrne as Colonel Ernst Vogel: A brutal SS colonel. Byrne and Ford had previously starred in *Force 10 from Navarone* (1978), in which they also respectively played a German and an American.[11]
* Kevork Malikyan as Kazim: The leader of the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword, an organization that protects the Holy Grail. Malikyan had impressed Spielberg with his performance in *Midnight Express* (1978) and would have auditioned for the role of Sallah in *Raiders of the Lost Ark* had a traffic jam not delayed his meeting with the director.
* Robert Eddison as The Grail Knight: The guardian of the Grail who drank from the cup of Christ during the Crusades and is immortal as long as he stays within the temple. Eddison was a stage and television veteran only appearing once before in film (a supporting role in Peter Ustinov's 1948 comedy *Vice Versa*). Glover recalled Eddison was excited and nervous for his return to film, often asking if he had performed correctly. Laurence Olivier was originally considered to play the Grail Knight, but he was too ill and died the same year in which the film was released.

## Opening (1992 Re-release) (with no trailer)

* CIC Video Warning Screen
* CIC Video/Paramount
* BBFC PG Card (1985-1997)
* Paramount Pictures Ident (1986-2002)
* Start of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

## Closing (1992 Re-release) (with no trailer)

* End of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
* Closing Credits Film
* Paramount Pictures Ident (Still) (1986-2002)
* CIC Video Warning Scroll

## Opening (1993 Re-Release)

1. CIC Video Warning Screen (1991-1996)
2. The Paramount Pictures Big Screen, Best Sellers Trailer From 1993 with clips of "Top Gun", "Grease", "Ghost", "The Godfather Part I, Part II and Part III", "Fatal Attraction", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", "An Officer and a Gentleman", "The Untouchables" and "Zulu".
3. The Godfather Part III Trailer
4. Presented In Dolby Surround Ident (Short Version)
5. BBFC PG Card (1985-1997)
6. Paramount Pictures Ident (1986-2002)
7. Start of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

## Closing (1993 Re-Release)

1. End of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
2. Closing Credits Film
3. Paramount Pictures Ident (Still) (1986-2002)
4. CIC Video Warning Scroll

## Trailers and info

### 1993 Re-release

1. The Paramount Pictures Big Screen, Best Sellers trailer from 1993 with clips of "Top Gun", "Grease", "Ghost", "The Godfather Part I, Part II and Part III", "Fatal Attraction", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", "An Officer and a Gentleman", "The Untouchables" and "Zulu".
2. The Godfather Part III