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No way. Besides, what kind of boring movie would that be?

if the characters made the sensible decisions.

"We have ways to make you talk!"

(from the MAD satire with "Inbanana Bones&quot

was the Egyptian King of the Gods, like Zeus, Odin or Jupiter. I think it was supposed to be his staff (or a priest of Ra's staff?)

About so high, but nobody knows for sure.

Seriously though, cool info.

Why is there a huge Nazi military encampment in the Cairo suburbs? The whole WWII North African campaign was all about keeping the German military the hell away from Cairo and the Suez.

may not have had quite that much security, but two years before the Munich Conference the British weren't quite that hostile to the Germans. And who knows how many of those guards were flown in by plane after the initial work crews (led by a Frenchman) got started on their digging? (But obviously before Professor Jones stuck an Aryan in the propworks)

And if it were real-life, there would undoubtedly be various clandestine agents skulking around. But a uniformed military presence with vehicles, weapons and flag officers, no way.

never did the movie show he was inside the sub.

In the comic he lashes himself to the periscope with his whip. Apparently it was never lowered. Plausible? Not very-still a damn fine movie though.

If they submerge, then there's going to be more surface resistance on the hull and the boat moves slower. Since they lost the plane as a way of moving the Ark out of Egypt, supposedly the sub would be in a hurry to get to the secret base and fly the Ark out from there.

I'm just guessing of course. That sequence never made sense to me either.

"Do not dive … get to base as quickly as possible."

Or something to the effect.

All would be fine.

As you say, speed, use less fuel, air (no scrubbers back then). As this was peace time the sub would have no reason to submerge.

Problem for Indy: When the sub is surfaced there's a watch on duty in the conning tower (sail). Nowhere for him to hide.

Much more logical choice: Commandeer the cargo ship

Probably an insider joke: How many modes of transportation can Indy use. The film is a tribute to the 30's adventure serials.

Indiana Jones is really irrelevant to the entire movie.

That's kinda the key part of the puzzle, she's tucked away in some remote Nepalese village with the key staff piece. Would they have ever found her without following Indy? And again, once they did, they only had a piece of that puzzle and were looking in the wrong place. If Indy decides to just bide his time, they may have completely overlooked that hill.

if the Nazis were following Indy or if they had tracked Marian down independently because of her father's possession of the staff piece.

If they found her independently, then they would have taken the complete amulet and would have dug in the right place to begin with.

Well, it looks like I need to re-watch the movie!!

Except then the movie would have starred Brad Pitt instead of Harrison Ford.

Spyishly peering at him over his newspaper, no less.