Indiana Jones is easily one of the most iconic Cinematic characters of all time.
It was further immortalized by Harrison Ford's brilliant potrayal of the intrepid archaeologist adventurer.
A lot of people know that Steven Spielberg and the makers of Raiders of the lost Ark drew their inspiration from the serials of the late 30's and early 40's.
These serials were the equivalent of today's TV Shows.Before the advent of Television,these serials were shown in cinemas.Each serial used to have between 5 to 15 chapters most of the time but some were longer than that.Chapters were like TV episodes and the serials varied between Action,Adventure,Mystery,SciFi in their genre.
But very few know that probably the real inspiration behind Indiana Jones was the 1954 movie THE SECRET OF THE INCAS,starring Charlton Heston in the lead role.It was produced by Paramount Studio,the same studio that would go on to make the Indiana Jones movies.
Incas featured Heston as an adventurer who is looking for a sacred Incan relic.The movie was shot on location in Peru.A few scenes in the movie were later replicated by Spielberg in the first 2 Indiana Jones movies.
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