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[BOLD {STEVEN SPIELBERG}] The director (pictured in 1981) chose to make [ITALIC {Last Crusade}], passing on two other films that would go on to be hits (see fact No. 2)
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FIVE LAST CRUSADE FACTS

1. Sean Connery played Indy's dad, despite being a mere 12 years older than Harrison Ford.

2. Steven Spielberg had to pass on two projects he'd been developing when he decided to do Last Crusade instead. One was Rain Man; the other was Big.

3. When Connery and Ford filmed their conversation at a table aboard a zeppelin, it was so hot that both actors shot the scene without any pants.

4. At first Spielberg didn't like the Holy Grail concept, in large part because he associated it with Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

5. Sean Connery wasn't the only Bond-movie veteran in the cast of Last Crusade. A whopping seven other actors — including Indy's villainous love interest, Alison Doody (A View to a Kill) — had appeared in at least one James Bond film.

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Posted Mar 12, 2008 | Published in issue #982 Mar 14, 2008 | Order Article Reprints
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