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What were the movies that inspired Indiana Jones?
What are some of the b-movies and saturday matinees that inspired the indiana jones movies? I saw a lot of clips paticularly in this video: http://www.spike.com/video/cinemassacre-top-10/3197473 and I wondered what a lot of them were.
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg created Indiana Jones as an homage to the classic adventure series and films that they grew up with. Here are some classic Adventure films from early 20th century. The genre of films in which cliffhanger action scenes, just like in the Indiana Jones films, originated.
• The Spiders (1919)
• The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
• The Black Watch (1929)
• East of Borneo (1931)
• The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
• She (1935)
• Captain Blood (1935)
• Lost Horizon (1937)
• Storm Over Bengal (1938)
• Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
• The Sea Hawk (1940)
• Sundown (1941)
• King Solomon's Mines (1950)
• White Witch Doctor (1953)
• Fritz Lang's Indian Epic (1959)
• The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
• The Four Feathers (1929 - 1939)
And here is a list of films that were used as inspiration for the clothing, weapons and style for the Indiana Jones films. The films that influenced Lucas and Spielberg their creative decisions while making the Indy adventures.
• Zorro Rides Again (1937)
• Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939)
• Stagecoach (1939)
• Gunga Din (1939)
• Casablanca (1943)
• China (1943)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
• The Secret of the Incas (1954)
• The Naked Jungle (1954)
• Valley of the Kings (1954)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• MacKenna's Gold (1969)