From Deseret News archives:
'Raiders' box reveals new discoveries
The 1,100-seat auditorium was easily filled by listeners of a local radio station who picked up free tickets, and there was palpable excitement in the air as the audience waited for the movie to begin and to fill that huge curved screen.
"Raiders" didn't open cold, of course. There was tremendous buzz about this new film, directed by the guy who did "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and produced by the guy who did "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back."
Advance word indicated that Spielberg, who had slipped a bit with his previous film, "1941," was back at the top of his game.
Eventually, the lights went down, the curtains began to open and that great mountain in the Paramount Pictures logo filled the screen. Then, as the blue logo unexpectedly faded into a South American mountain that matched it, the audience let out a collective "Oooooh."
It was one of those wonderfully magical moviegoing moments that only happens every once in awhile and hardly ever today.
In fact, I remember writing a story for the Deseret News (no "Morning" in those days) about the one-year anniversary of the film playing at the Villa.
These days, if a movie plays in a theater for one month it's an accomplishment.
I was reminded of all this as I sorted through a new four-disc box set that will be in video stores next Tuesday, "The Adventures of Indiana Jones" (Paramount, PG/PG-13, $69.98, available in both widescreen and full-frame sets). Each of the three movies "Raiders," "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984) and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989) has its own disc, with gorgeous transfers. (But, in keeping with Spielberg's personal philosophy, no audio commentaries.)
But the fourth disc is where new discoveries abound, with loads of material broken down into making-of documentaries for each film and other featurettes about the films' stunts, music, sound, etc.
Virtually all of the trilogy's primary cast members have been tracked down and comment on their films from Sean Connery and Kate Capshaw to John Williams and stunt coordinators to some you might not expect, such as now grown-up Ke Huy Quan, who played Short Round in "Temple of Doom."
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