Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade Summary

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade opens in 1912 in Monument Valley with Indiana Jones as a boy scout who steals the Cross of Coronado from treasure hunters to put it in a museum. After the police force Indiana to give the cross back, the scene changes to a ship in the Atlantic in 1938 where Indiana finally obtains the Cross of Coronado, and Indiana later gives it to a museum. In the United States, Indiana Jones meets Walter Donovon, a donor to the museum who tells Indiana his father, Henry, went missing in Venice. Indiana travels to Venice with a friend, Marcus Brody. Here, he meets Elsa Schneider, his father’s former research partner. Together, Indiana and Elsa pick up where Henry Jones left off and find another clue to the Holy Grail. However,
Henry and Indiana travel to Jordon where they find a Nazi convoy to the grail temple and meet up with their friend, Sallah. Henry, Indiana, and Sallah attack the convey with the assistance of the cult and recover Marcus from Nazi hands. Indiana, Henry, Sallah, and Marcus then go to the grail temple where Nazis find them and shoot Henry. Indiana, in an attempt to save his father, starts the trials. Indiana successfully passes the trials and makes it to the Grail Room, where one must choose the Holy Grail from dozens of chalices. Donovan and Elsa follow him there, and Elsa purposely chooses the wrong cup for Donovan. Donovan dies, and Indiana chooses the correct cup and leaves the grail room with Elsa. Indiana saves his father, but Elsa crosses the boundary that the Holy Grail can not pass. The temple starts collapsing, and while trying to reach the Holy Grail, Elsa falls to her death. Indiana almost suffers the same faith, but Henry reminds Indiana that men are not worthy of such power. Upon Indiana leaving the grail temple, Sallah, Marcus, Henry, and Indiana set off on horseback into the