Indiana Jones: 15 Fun Facts

SPINAL TRAP Riding an elephant didn't do wonders for Ford's back (see fact No. 3)

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FIVE TEMPLE OF DOOM FACTS

1. Indiana Jones was famously named after George Lucas' Alaskan malamute. So as an inside joke in Doom, Kate Capshaw's Willie was named after Spielberg's cocker spaniel, and Short Round was named after screenwriter Willard Huyck's dog.

2. Dan Aykroyd has a strange cameo as a guy who walks Indy to his plane after the opening chase in Shanghai. Also, Pat Roach, who plays the chief Thuggee guard, is the only actor besides Ford to appear in all of the first three Indy films.

3. Riding elephants for the movie led to Ford rupturing a disc in his back. He had to fly to the U.S. for emergency surgery.

4. The movie was originally called Indiana Jones and the Temple of Death, but it was later softened to Doom.

5. Two of Doom's biggest action sequences (the Shanghai shoot-out and the mine rail chase) were originally envisioned for Raiders.

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