Good action sequence there, the sidecar ends up cut in half at some point and Indy gets on the train (first time we hear the Raiders theme very briefly if I remember correctly as well as the Wilhem scream when Indy knocks a nazi out of the train). After knocking a nazi in his car, Indy takes his place at the wheel but he as to let other nazis aboard and he drives along a road with them and nazis in sidecars until he decides to go off script to follow the nearby train. Meanwhile, Basil Shaw is interrogated by the nazi officer.

Aboard the train, Voller is trying to reach the nazi officer to tell him something important but you can tell the nazis don’t really take him seriously. While Basil Shaw, an Oxford scholar clearly not made for auction, is caught by nazis looking for him with dogs and taken aboard their train leaving the castle (on the verge of being destroyed by the Allies bombings), Indy is about to get hung on a rope by several nazis but fortunately for him a rocket drops slowly in the room and descends several floors before exploding, which kills the nazis and makes him hung around the void thanks to the rope around his neck – but he manages to escape alive. The exchange concludes by the officer ordering to take Indy away and telling him in a triumphant way : “To the victor belong the spoils”. Voller appears at some point and looks briefly to the Lance in its box before it’s taken away and you can see he notices something. It’s a conveted prize for Hitler who really wants it. The nazi officer asks him, looking at Indy’s notes, why he was looking to steal the Lance of Longinus, which was used to crucify the Christ.

Cue to the scene of the trailer where Indy’s face appears after the bag is taken away.

Meanwhile, Basil Shaw is hiding in a forest nearby, looking anxiously for Indy. All of this happening while the castle is under fire and there is a lot of agitation in the background. I think the first shot of the movie is a door opening (but not 100% sure) leading up to seeing Indy, in a Nazi uniform and a bag on his head, taken to a nazi officer by nazis who claim they caught this American spy. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny OpeningĪfter the logos introduction (Disney, Paramount – no dissolve on a shot -, Lucasfilm), we are thrown right into the action in 1944.

September Ends by Hunter S. Jones