Word: harrison
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INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE. The adventure genre may be nearly exhausted, but producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg know how to make the thrills crack like Indy's bull whip. Sean Connery and Harrison Ford find special star resonance in the bond between an aloof father and his heroic, hero-worshiping...
...roguish stars, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, shine as the Jones boys in the latest of George Lucas' crusading adventures, kicking off this summer of sequels...
...Star Wars for a generation of space cadets, is the mastermind of the Indiana Jones series. Spielberg directed the trilogy, which reaches its thrilling climax this week when Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade opens on 2,327 movie screens in the U.S. and Canada. The star is Harrison Ford -- three times Indy Jones, three times Star Wars' Han Solo and the unchallenged hero of a derring-do, me-too movie decade...
...Connery was thought too young to play Indy's father, who was originally conceived as a crotchety gent like On Golden Pond's Henry Fonda. It was Spielberg's idea to cast Connery, a decision that illuminated the film and its filming. "When Sean and Harrison arrived on the set," Spielberg recalls, "everyone got quiet and respectful. The two are like royalty -- not the royalty you fear because they can tax you, but the royalty you love because they will make your lives better...
...fond suspension of disbelief. In its most elaborate attraction, The Great Movie Ride, spectators enter a reproduction of Hollywood's secular cathedral, the Chinese theater, where the Casablanca piano and Dorothy's ruby slippers repose under glass. Computerized mannequins portray such stars as James Cagney, Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford. An Alien monster lurches and drools. For all its bustle, the ride refuses to enthrall. Even a beguiling stop in Munchkinland reminds the passengers that, however the technology of Disney rides has improved, the scope has not changed since the '60s. It's a Small World after...