Radical Retro Movie Review: "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

The Paramount Pictures mountaintop logo dissolves into an actual peak, in what appears to be the jungle.  A dark figure in a fedora crosses in front of the camera with a group of men in tow.  One of them, spooked by something he sees, runs screaming into the jungle.  The man in the hat stops briefly to piece together a map.  That’s when an on-screen prompt tells us that the year is 1936, and the location is South America.Read more...

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