25 Awesome Action Heroes

3. HARRISON FORD, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
A man should be judged by what he does. So it's fitting that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas' whip-cracking hero Indiana Jones doesn't do much talking, and that this movie doesn't waste much time on dialogue (even though said dialogue is screwball-smart, coming from Lawrence Kasdan). Some of the greatest action scenes ever filmed are strung together like pearls: running from that boulder, fighting the big bald Nazi, wondering ''Snakes...why'd it have to be snakes?'' The posters called Raiders ''The Return of the Great Adventure.'' Truth in advertising if I ever saw it.