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60-504: (Redirected from Las Barrancas ) [REDACTED] Look up barranca in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Barranca (Spanish for "canyon" or "ravine"), may refer to: Geography [ edit ] Argentina [ edit ] Barranca Yaco , Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, Argentina Chile [ edit ] Barrancas, Pichilemu ,

120-647: A Princess he noticed that Freeman had very piercing eyes. Belloq was intended to appear in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom , but the character was written out for unknown reasons. He was set to appear in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles , but the show was canceled before its third season. He and the 21-year-old Indiana would have become friends in Honduras in 1920, although his ruthless traits would be exhibited by stealing and selling

180-555: A city in San Marcos Department , Guatemala La Barranca, an aldea of Colotenango , in Huehuetenango, Guatemala Aldea La Barranca, Cunén, Guatemala Barranca Honda , Jutiapa , Guatemala Barranca Seca , Zacapa , Guatemala Barrancas , Chiquimula , Guatemala Barranca, Izabal , Guatemala Barrancas de Galvez, a city in San Marcos Department , Guatemala Mexico [ edit ] Barranca de Otates ,

240-505: A cliff during the chase sequence with Indiana Jones riding on horseback to intercept the truck carrying the Ark.) In a sequel comic book, Indy is confronted by his vengeful sister Ilsa. Toht was called Belzig in the August 1979 draft of the script. Spielberg wanted him to be a cyborg , with a metal arm that could convert to a flamethrower or machine gun. The 1979 script gave him a light in place of

300-523: A crush on Jones in 1926, leading him to pursue a relationship with her, despite the fact that she was a minor. This ended abruptly when her father Abner Ravenwood (Jones' mentor) discovered their romance. Ten years later, a resentful Marion is forced to aid Indiana in retrieving the Ark of the Covenant after her bar in Nepal is burned down by Arnold Ernst Toht and his thugs. Marion was a regular supporting character in

360-667: A crystal skull to F. A. Mitchell-Hedges . He would have aided Indiana and Percy Fawcett in Brazil in an episode set in 1921. He was also intended to appear in the canceled Dark Horse Comics limited series Indiana Jones and the Lost Horizon , in which he appears in the prologue discovering a fake Turin Shroud in New York City in 1926. In an early script of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of

420-571: A fertility idol he has braved numerous booby traps to obtain. Belloq aids the Nazis in finding the Ark of the Covenant , as he wants to use the relic to speak with God. When the Ark is opened, its contained spirits engulf Belloq in flames and cause his head to explode; Indiana and Marion are spared and turn the Ark over to the US government. At one point in the film, Belloq says to Indy that they are very much alike and that he

480-507: A figurine of the swordsman in a box set in January 2001 (to scale with the Micro Machines vehicles models), and a 4.5 in (110 mm) figure in August 2003. In 2008, Hasbro released a 3.75 in (95 mm) action figure, an Adventure Heroes figure, and a 12 in (300 mm) figure. Major Gobler ( Anthony Higgins ) is a German major of the military contingent attached to

540-621: A photo in Indy's office. In an interview of TheForce.net , Davies told that Steven Spielberg offered him to return as Sallah in a cameo, but he declined. During the development of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , an early draft titled Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars , written by Jeb Stuart , Sallah was set to appear in the wedding of Indy and Dr. Elaine McGregor, along with Marion Ravenwood, Short Round, and Willie Scott, but

600-623: A place in Córdoba Province , Argentina is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of characters in the Indiana Jones series#Barranca This is a list of characters in the Indiana Jones series . This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in the Indiana Jones film franchise. Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. ( Harrison Ford ),

660-737: A pueblo in Zacoalco municipality, Jalisco, Mexico Barranca del Cobre ("Copper Canyon"), Mexico Metro Barranca del Muerto , metro station in Mexico City Peru [ edit ] Barranca District, Datem del Marañón in the Loreto Region Barranca District, Barranca in the Lima Region Barranca Province in the Lima Region Barranca, Lima United States [ edit ] Barranca,

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720-630: A right eye. Lucas rejected these as too far-fetched. Lacey was cast as Toht, as he reminded Spielberg of Peter Lorre . Klaus Kinski turned down the role, as he hated the script. Lacey later made a cameo appearance in The Last Crusade as Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler , opposite Michael Sheard (who himself auditioned for Toht) as Adolf Hitler . In Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods , an early script (written by Frank Darabont ) of Indiana Jones and

780-555: A rumored flight-related tragedy. He frequently was hired by Jones to fly the archaeologist to remote parts of the world. Easygoing and affable, Jock butted heads with Indiana on only one subject: his pet snake Reggie. According to the novelization of Raiders of the Lost Ark written by Campbell Black aka Campbell Armstrong (1981), Jock is Scottish. The "Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar" cocktail lounge at Disney Springs says he settled down in central Florida in 1938. Barranca ( Vic Tablian )

840-641: A town in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico , USA Barrancas National Cemetery , a United States National Cemetery located at Naval Air Station Pensacola, in the city of Pensacola, Florida Fort Barrancas , in the Warrington area of Pensacola, Florida The Barranca , in Newbury Park, California Fiction [ edit ] Las Barrancas, a fictional town in a fictional county in the computer game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas The guide Barranca in

900-581: A village in Pichilemu Colombia [ edit ] Barrancas, La Guajira , town and municipality of the Colombian Department of La Guajira Barranca de Upía , a town and municipality in the Meta Department, Colombia Barrancabermeja , Colombia Costa Rica [ edit ] Barranca, a district of Puntarenas , Costa Rica Guatemala [ edit ] Barranca Grande,

960-512: Is Indy's "shadowy reflection". The novelization of the movie reveals Belloq became Indiana's foe at graduate school , when he plagiarized his essay on stratigraphy , thus winning an award that rightfully belonged to Indiana. Another encounter in 1934 is detailed, when Indiana spends months preparing a dig in Rub' al Khali , only to arrive and discover Belloq has excavated the region. Indiana also encounters Belloq in two novels by Max McCoy , set before

1020-590: Is Marion's father and an unseen character . He was Indiana's mentor at the University of Chicago , but the two split in 1926 when Indiana had an affair with the teenage Marion. The Ark of the Covenant was his lifelong obsession, and he owned the headpiece to the Staff of Ra , which could pinpoint its location. He is said to be dead when Indiana and the Nazis come to Nepal (where the Ravenwoods live) in 1936, to use it to find

1080-539: Is a very strong woman, a gutsy lady. Willie is a much different character than the woman Karen Allen played in Raiders . In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , she does not appear physically, but appears in a photo in Indy's office. In an early script of the film called Indiana Jones and the Saucermen of Mars , written by Jeb Stuart , Willie was set to appear in Indy and Dr. Elaine McGregor's wedding, along with Sallah, Short Round, and Marion Ravenwood, but

1140-497: Is an academic and curator who has known Indy since he was a child. Brody was friends with Indy's father, Henry Sr., and served as something of a surrogate father figure, as Indy did not get along well with his own father. In the film, Brody makes a deal with government agents that Indy will recover the Ark of the Covenant and put it in a museum, but the agents put it away in a top secret hiding place, much to his disappointment. He reappeared in The Last Crusade (1989), aiding Indiana on

1200-670: Is famous because General Juan Facundo Quiroga , Governor and caudillo of La Rioja , was assassinated there by a party led by Santos Pérez, on 16 February 1835, during the Argentine Civil Wars . Santos Pérez along with the former Governor of Córdoba José Vicente Reynafé and two of his brothers were judged and hanged for this crime at Buenos Aires in 1837. Since 2009 there is a memorial square that remembers Quiroga and those killed with him. 30°51′57.6″S 64°6′2.6″W  /  30.866000°S 64.100722°W  / -30.866000; -64.100722 This article about

1260-594: Is more of a damsel in distress . According to the novelization, Willie was born in Missouri to a wealthy family. However, in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom , she tells Indiana that her father had been a magician who had "made a lot of children very happy and died a very poor man". She moved to Shanghai when she was unable to break into Hollywood during the Great Depression . She also claims to know Al Capone (whom Indy met in 1920) and Frank Nitti . She returns to

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1320-458: Is the other Peruvian guide who turns against Indiana. When Barranca draws a revolver, Indy uses his famous bullwhip and wraps the whip around the gun. The gun is yanked from Barranca's hand and lands in a stream. Barranca then runs away but is later killed with poisonous darts by the Hovitos tribe. In the early script of the film, written by Lawrence Kasdan , when Barranca pulls his gun out on Jones,

1380-467: Is the secondary antagonist of Raiders of the Lost Ark . He is the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) agent who attempts to steal the medallion from Marion, but his hand is badly burned by it, as it had been engulfed in flames prior to his grabbing it. The scarred inscription on his hand is used by the Nazis to pinpoint the Ark's location, but as his hand lacks the code on the medallion's other side, they dig in

1440-474: The Bantu Wind . Following a battle, Katanga regains his ship. The Luftwaffe Mechanic ( Pat Roach ) challenges Indiana to a one-on-one fight as Indy is attempting to reach the pilot of a flying wing . The muscular mechanic gets the better of Indy for most of the fight, which takes place on the airstrip, but he fails to move away from the propeller of the flying wing in time and is cut to pieces. Abner Ravenwood

1500-487: The Marvel Comics series set after the film. In the early script of the film, written by Lawrence Kasdan , Marion was set to be a prostitute after Abner's death, but George Lucas rejected the script. According to Steven Spielberg , Marion was set to appear in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom , alongside her father Abner, but George Lucas scrapped the idea. During the development of Indiana Jones and

1560-540: The 2003 video game Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb (set in 1935, before Temple of Doom ) but the developers of the game deemed his role as Indy's partner "too unwieldy". Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott ( Kate Capshaw ) is an American singer working at Club Obi Wan (a reference to Star Wars character Obi-Wan Kenobi ) in 1935 Shanghai who is caught up in Indiana's adventures and becomes his love interest. Unlike Marion, she

1620-456: The Ark at Tanis . The novelization details he died in an avalanche in 1936. In Marvel Comics ' The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones , it is hinted that Abner is alive when Indiana and Marion travel to the fictitious city Ra-Lundi to free its people from the power of a meteorite: Indiana is briefly aided by a masked man. Abner is in the back-story to a gamebook , where he lost an ebony dove from Malakula after being chased off by

1680-470: The Crystal Skull called Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods and written by Frank Darabont , the Nazis were set to appear, seeking revenge for Belloq's and Toht's deaths, but the script was rejected. Kenner released a 3.75 in (95 mm) action figure (dressed in Jewish robes) in late 1982, which was available by mail order until 1983. A Belloq figure in normal clothes was also released in 1983. He

1740-521: The Dial of Destiny in 2023 in a cameo appearance . It is revealed over the course of the film that Indy and Marion are in the process of a divorce after Mutt was killed in the Vietnam War . After Indy is brought back from travelling back in time to Ancient Greece by his goddaughter Helena, he reconciles with Marion, and the mourning couple embrace. SS-Sturmbannführer Arnold Ernst Toht ( Ronald Lacey )

1800-623: The Infernal Machine (1999) in the secret level "Return to Peru", where Indiana returns to the same temple and finds the second idol. His name is based on that of a Peruvian town, Satipo in Satipo Province in Junín Region . Jock Lindsey ( Fred Sorenson ) is an American freelance pilot. Jock cut his teeth as a stunt pilot performing in Midwest airshows and relocated to Venezuela after

1860-451: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , the Nazis were set to appear seeking revenge for Toht and Belloq's death, but the script was rejected. A 3.75 in (95 mm) figure was released in late 1982, and he was part of a metal miniature collection in 1984. Oberst Hermann Dietrich ( Wolf Kahler ) is an arrogant German Army officer who serves as the head of the Tanis excavation project. He

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1920-438: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , an early draft, called Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars , written by Jeb Stuart , Marion was set to appear in the wedding of Indy and Dr. Elaine McGregor, alongside Sallah, Short Round, and Willie Scott, but the draft was rejected. In another early script, Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods , written by Frank Darabont , Marion was set to appear again as Indy's partner, but this draft

1980-469: The Lost Horizon was going to depict him and Indiana recovering the headpiece to the Staff of Ra in Tibet in 1926. Artist Hugh Fleming modeled Abner's appearance on actor Wilford Brimley , and the series would explain that Abner taught Indiana to behave cynically with others, so that they would not think he was crazy if he mentioned his encounters with the supernatural. The character was also intended to appear in

2040-481: The Nazis, he conceals the pair, claiming to the Nazis that he killed Indiana and intends to sell Marion to slavery. Colonel Dietrich believes him and calls him a savage. Katanga appears in a Marvel Comics sequel, in which Indiana bails him from a Panama City jail after being charged with rum-running . Katanga and his crew take Indiana to the Aleutian Islands , where they are attacked by pirates, who commandeer

2100-412: The Tanis project. He is personally chosen by Hitler due to his ruthlessness and efficiency. Gobler is strict whereas Dietrich is practical. He dies when the truck driven by Jones rams his car, sending it flying off a cliff. Simon Katanga ( George Harris ), is a friend of Sallah and the captain of the Bantu Wind , a tramp steamer Indiana and Marion use to transport the Ark. When his ship is boarded by

2160-546: The Temple of Doom , but George Lucas scrapped the idea. In the early scripts of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , Fedora was intended to be Abner, but the idea was rejected. Abner was intended to appear in the canceled third season of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles , when a ten-year-old Indiana meets him searching for the Ark on the Temple Mount . The canceled Dark Horse Comics limited series Indiana Jones and

2220-539: The United States following her adventure. Spielberg liked the character of Willie, describing her: Willie has led this pampered life and feels that's what's due her — to be cared for and looked after. She meets Indiana Jones, a person unlike anyone she has ever been involved with, and ends up going off with him. In the course of all their adventures, all of her earlier life is stripped away from her, and Willie must fall back on her own resources. She discovers that she

2280-508: The archaeologist uses his whip to make Barranca shoot himself, but the script was scrapped. Like Satipo, his name is based on a Peruvian town and county, Barranca , Barranca Ward , Barranca County , Lima state . René Emile Belloq ( Paul Freeman ) is a French archaeologist and the main antagonist in Raiders of the Lost Ark . Belloq is the arch-nemesis of Jones, and the two know each other very well, including each other's strengths and weaknesses, as shown by their very first exchange in

2340-453: The crowd to burst into cheers. The gag came about because Harrison Ford was suffering from dysentery and did not want to spend three days filming a "conventional" fight. On the first take, Richards "took a minute-and-a-half to die", so on the next take, Ford shot him so quickly that Richards fell over in surprise. Ford would later say he felt sorry for Richards because "he worked so hard on that swordplay". Richards felt "it turned out to be

2400-505: The draft was scrapped. On February 20, 2016, Davies expressed interest in reprising his role of Sallah in the upcoming fifth movie. In Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny , Sallah now works in New York City as a cab driver, after Indy helped his family emigrate to America following the Second World War, helping out Indy in 1969 when he is framed for murder by the CIA . Danny DeVito was

2460-409: The film, where Jones says "Too bad the Hovitos don't know you the way I do, Belloq."; to which Belloq replies: "Yes, too bad. You could warn them, if only you spoke Hovitos". He is highly intelligent, as evinced by Sallah's "They have not one brain among them... except one... he is very clever - a French archaeologist...". In the film's opening, Belloq and Hovitos tribesmen force Indiana to hand over

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2520-445: The films, in which Jones and Belloq meet for the first time (contradicting the novelization of Raiders of the Lost Ark ) and Belloq gives Indiana information for locating a crystal skull . Belloq's first name was Emile in an August 1979 draft of the script, and Marion was originally more infatuated with him. Spielberg considered Jacques Dutronc and Giancarlo Giannini for the part before casting Freeman. While watching Death of

2580-452: The funniest thing in the film", and was surprised he was not cut out of the picture. Many, including Lucas, disliked the brutality of the gag, and Richards concurred the joke was very morbid. Nevertheless, it was placed 38th on Empire 's Top 50 film gags list, and it is one of Spielberg's favorite scenes in the series. Kenner released a 3.75 in (95 mm) figure of the swordsman in 1982. Walt Disney Parks & Resorts released

2640-440: The index. Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir ( John Rhys-Davies ) is an Egyptian excavator and a friend of Indiana. He reappeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade . He also appeared in a Marvel comic, a Young Indiana Jones book (which detailed his first meeting with Indiana in 1913), and two Bantam novels. In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , Sallah does not appear physically, but appears in

2700-464: The island's inhabitants in 1927; five years later Indiana and his cousin must retrieve it. A supplement to a role-playing game said that Abner studied under Franz Boas , and disliked the British for their "armchair anthropology ", in which they made assumptions about other cultures based on reports instead of exploring themselves. Abner was set to appear along his daughter Marion in Indiana Jones and

2760-412: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barranca&oldid=1171945251 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Barranca Yaco The place

2820-421: The nickname "Mutt" as a teenager). After the two are reunited when a Soviet plot attempts to find a secret discovered by an old colleague of Abner and Indiana, Marion reveals the truth about Mutt's parentage, and Indiana admits that none of the women he was with after Marion left compared to her. Once they return to America, the two marry in a ceremony at the college. Allen reprised the role for Indiana Jones and

2880-515: The opening scenes of Raiders of the Lost Ark The setting of the 1939 Howard Hawks film Only Angels Have Wings Music [ edit ] La Barranca rock group from Mexico City See also [ edit ] Baranca (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Barranca . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

2940-503: The original choice to portray Sallah, but he declined. Also, Kevork Malikyan auditioned to portray Sallah, but was not chosen (he later portrayed Kazim in Last Crusade ). The Cairo Swordsman ( Terry Richards ) appears when Marion is being kidnapped by Nazi forces. The entire crowd moves aside when the swordsman appears, swinging his scimitar and coercing Indiana into a battle. Jones simply pulls out his revolver and shoots him, causing

3000-409: The script was rejected. In another early script, Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods , written by Frank Darabont , Scott was set to be mentioned by Indy, but this script was also rejected. Willie was named after Spielberg's dog. Spielberg wanted Willie to be a complete contrast to Marion, so Capshaw dyed her brown hair blonde for the part. Spielberg later married Capshaw in 1991. A Willie figure

3060-647: The search for his father and getting captured by the Nazis . In 1940, Marcus Brody retired as curator of the National Museum and accepted a position as dean of students at Marshall College. After Brody died in 1952, Indy lobbied hard for the bronze statue of Brody featured in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on the Marshall College grounds. The statue of Brody lists his years of service as dean of students from 1939 to 1944. Denholm Elliott's death in 1992

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3120-605: The third film in the series, though still portrayed as intelligent, his character had changed to a somewhat bumbling figure who Indy mentions had gotten lost in his own museum and provided much of the film's comic relief . Brody has also appeared in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis , the Marvel Comics Indiana Jones series, a Young Indiana Jones book and the Bantam novels series. Marion Ravenwood ( Karen Allen ) had

3180-496: The titular character of the franchise, is an archaeologist and part-time college professor. Satipo ( Alfred Molina ) is a guide accompanying Indy in the temple in the film's opening. He follows behind him through the temple's traps on the way in. When Indy and Satipo reach a pit on the way out, Satipo makes it over with Indy's whip and Indy is stuck on the other side. Indy throws over the fertility idol to Satipo, who offered to throw him his whip for it; but he betrays Indy, dropping

3240-458: The whip and fleeing. In his haste, he forgot to mind the wall trap he had witnessed Indy test and is killed; Indiana makes it out. In an early script of the film, written by Lawrence Kasdan , Satipo flees the boulder with Indy, only to be met with Barranca's ultimate fate in the finished film and killed by the Hovito tribe, but the script was scrapped. He appears in the video game Indiana Jones and

3300-429: The wrong area (the inscription on his half tells them how tall to make a staff to help find the right area, but the other half reveals that the staff should be subsequently shortened by a head in homage to God). Toht dies at the end of the film when his face melts after he is exposed to the supernatural powers of the Ark. (In the novelization and the original script, Toht dies earlier in the story when Gobler's car flies off

3360-419: Was Schliemann, and he was set to survive the Ark of the Covenant's opening; after this, he and other surviving Nazis were set to pursue Marion and Indy in a minecar chase. However, the script was scrapped, and the minecar chase was recycled for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom . The only piece of Dietrich merchandise has been a 1984 metal miniature. The DK Indiana Jones guide established his first name in

3420-499: Was also scrapped. Allen reprised the role for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008. It is revealed over the course of the film that Indy and Marion were engaged to be married, but Indiana left her a week before the wedding as he was concerned that it wasn't going to work out. Indiana was thus unaware that Marion married his old friend Colin Williams, or that Marion gave birth to his son, Henry Jones III (who adopted

3480-460: Was chosen by Hitler due to his ruthless efficiency. Dietrich expresses doubt over Belloq's desire to perform a "Jewish ritual" with the Ark and also refers to Captain Katanga as a "savage", due to the captain hinting at selling Marion Ravenwood into slavery. He is killed when the Ark is opened causing his head to implode. In the early script of the film, written by Lawrence Kasdan , Dietrich's surname

3540-425: Was included in a TSR, Inc. collection of metal miniatures the following year. Hasbro released a 3.75 in (95 mm) Belloq in Jewish robes in 2008 (which comes with the fertility idol). An Adventure Heroes figurine, which comes with the Ark and a murderous spirit, will also be released. Lego made a Belloq figure for a playset based on the Raiders opening sequence. Marcus Brody ( Denholm Elliott )

3600-577: Was written into Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with the death of his character. Spielberg cast Elliott in the role because he was a fan of the actor. His return in Crusade was motivated by the director's desire to have the film hew closer to Raiders . He was initially portrayed in the first film as a knowledgeable, accomplished archaeologist in his own right, with much apparent field work under his belt, and tells Indy that he would accompany him on his quest but for other responsibilities. By

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