It also is a smaller influence on Raiders of the Lost Ark. ... Another serial with special consideration is Republic’s Zorro’s Fighting Legion (1939).

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a great landmark of modern cinema directed by Steven Spielberg from a story by George Lucas. A tribute to the adventure serials of the 1930s and 1940s, Raiders of the ...

But Freeman, over the years, has thought a lot about Raiders of the Lost Ark and why it has such a lasting influence. And why Raiders is still the best of the Indiana Jones movies (with one reason ...

It was called “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” a modern mash-up of the best parts of the classic film serials from the ’30s and ’40s, and it featured an archaeologist adventurer named Indiana ...

Raiders of the Lost Ark was released in 1981 and directed by Steven Spielberg with a screenplay by Lawrence Kasden, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman.