Re: 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

I remember seeing the finished movie when it came out and I laughed out loud at the "Germany" scenes as it looked nothing like Germany.
Anyone ever see the movie, "Something Wild," which was Ray Riotta's first real movie, with Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith? My Dad was voluntold to take part as a civil war re-enactor, as he worked for the state of Florida where the movie was filmed in 1985, and the producers wanted a cannon in a scene for 'local color'. My Dad is terribly shy and reserved, and only took part when his boss said word came down from the state film office to cooperate (the producers asked the state museum to loan a cannon to them which they said no, but a guy from the museum knew my dad had built one himself).
He's still proud of taking part, but not that it was a rated R movie. He was embarrassed when family saw the movie.
Amazingly, he got a speaking part, literally bumping into Jeff Daniels:






Dormie62 Wrote:
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> There is another train sequence in this movie when
> Indy's buddy Marcus was kidnapped by the Germans
> at the Iskenderun station. The day went something
> like this:
>
> My alarm goes off at 3.30am in Mojacar in southern
> Spain. Leave at 4.30am for a 10.00am call time at
> a forest clearing 20 mile west of Guadix where we
> shoot the scene where Indy and his Dad on a
> motorbike/sidecar combo decide to go back to
> Berlin to retrieve his notebook. Wrap it up by
> noon and head back to Guadix and lunch. 2pm and
> we're on the platform for the arrival of the train
> with something steaming at the end of the station.
> Don't have time to figure exactly out what because
> Steven has arrived and we shoot the entire
> abduction scene in record time and then load up at
> 5.30pm and drive the 50 plus miles west to Granada
> for the next day's shoot, arriving at 6.30pm. On
> the clock for 14 hours. That's the movie business.
> Next day we shoot for 6 hours then its 1,000 miles
> back to the UK.
>
> P.S. The most incredible sequence for me on this
> film was the book burning sequence at the
> Reichstag. When we arrived at the location, the
> brown shirt extras were marching and the loud
> speakers were broadcasting the Hitler speeches of
> the day.
>
> Ian

-Lee

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