![]() A German youth vacationing in Tunisia had been hired for the part of the young soldier. A young German soldier was supposed to carry out the dirty job, but things changed when he started having second thoughts. With Indy and Marion left to suffocate in the Well of Souls, the Germans decide that Sallah should be executed. Steven Spielberg opted to cut this scene, instead of spending half a day shooting it again. The scene called for smoke in the background, but unfortunately the tires, used to produce the smoke were too many, thus making the scene too dark. Sallah spills the content of the marmite on the German officers' uniforms and leaves promising to return with fresh water. A group of German soldiers ask him to serve them water from a marmite. What we don't see, is Sallah in a state of panic, wandering in the Nazi camp at breakfast time. In a continuing scene, we see Sallah entering a German tent looking for something to substitute his missing rope, and awhile later he comes up with a "rope" made of bed sheets and a Nazi flag. In the process, Sallah loses the rope, with which he was supposed to help Indy get out of the map room. While Indiana Jones is in the map room trying to find the exact location of the Well of Souls, two German soldiers approach Sallah and order him to help them remove their truck that had been stuck in the sand. Notice that nobody ever touches the Ark throughout the rest of the film, until the finale. ![]() Then they insert long poles through each side of the Ark to lift it out of its crypt. Indy stops him before he does, and reminds him of the Imam's warning. When Sallah first sees it he reaches out to touch it. The next scene involving this Ark subplot, is when Sallah and Indy remove the Ark from the Well of Souls. Before translating the writings on the headpiece that give the height of the Staff of Ra, Imam warns Indy not to touch the Ark, or look at it when it is opened. This is first explained in additional dialogue for the scene when Indy and Sallah visit the Imam. If you look at the Ark when it is opened, you die. Basically, there were two rules about the Ark not mentioned in the final cut of the film: 1. A plot element involving the Ark of the Covenant was cut from the film, and is only hinted at during the finale, when the Ark is opened. The scene appears in a script draft, the novelization, and the Marvel Comics movie adaptation. The kissing part can be seen in The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark documentary. The whole Raven Bar scene was cut because it was considered too long. She grabs his jacket and pulls him close for a kiss. After having arranged the following day's appointment for the delivery of the medallion, Indy turns to leave, only to return under Marion's urge. Scenes cut from the film: In the uncut conversation between Indy and Marion at the Raven Bar, Marion explains the cause of Abner's death, and tells Indy about the difficult last two years of her life. Vic Armstrong and Martin Grace play soldiers hanging onto the side of the truck before being knocked off. Terry Leonard plays the driver of the truck, who gets punched out of the cab by Ford. If it really was dangerous, they would have filmed more of the movie first." During the chase, Harrison Ford dispatches all three of his stunt doubles, all of whom are playing German soldiers. When asked if he was worried, Ford quipped: "No. Harrison Ford was actually dragged behind the truck for some of the shots, badly bruising his ribs. In other words, the shots were done in "fast motion", so the truck was not really moving as fast as depicted on-screen. In Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), we see on the camera slate that the camera was set at twenty frames per second instead of the traditional twenty-four. The truck was specially constructed to be farther off the ground than normal to allow clearance for Indiana Jones to pass underneath safely, and the center of the road was also dug out. He was thrilled at the chance of having another shot at it, but only agreed to do it if his friend and colleague Glenn Randall, Jr., was driving. In fact, it was a stunt that stuntman Terry Leonard had failed to pull off the year before in The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981). ![]() Indy being dragged under and then out behind a moving truck is a tribute to Yakima Canutt's famous stunt in John Ford's Диліжанс (1939).
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