The third film in the Indiana Jones saga practically offers a trip around the world, although not all the locations indicated are where the film says. The prologue, set in 1912, was shot between the Arches National Park in Utah, Colorado (the scene where Indiana races off on horseback) and New Mexico, where the train is transporting a circus. Later in the film, the United States offers another location as San Francisco where the zeppelin is boarded.
Jumping ahead to 1938, Indy is off the Portuguese coast (actually London’s Elstree Studios where all the interiors were built). England is the setting for the home of Henry Jones Sr. (in London) and for the American university where Indiana Jones teaches (Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire), while the building in Berlin where the Nazis burn books is actually Blenheim Palace in Woodstock. The Castle of Brunwald, which borders Austria and Germany in the film, is the Castle of Bürresheim in Rhineland. Spain is also present, with the Sierra de Huetor (Granada) where the characters decide whether to go to Berlin or Venice; the station of Guadix, Iskenderun in the film, near Granada; the dried-up riverbed in the desert of Tabernas, in the South, which is the setting for the tank chase and the aerial scenes, shot in Andalusia. The Temple of Alessandretta is actually the Treasury of the Pharaoh in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, considered one of the Seven wonders of the modern world.
Italy also has a look in. Jones goes to Venice in search of a carved inscription on a sarcophagus in the catacombs of a library located in a deconsecrated church. In the film it is called Biblioteca Marciana but the facade is that of the Church of St. Barnabas. A view over the city from above shows us the library, although the interiors were built in a studio.
The third film in the Indiana Jones saga practically offers a trip around the world, although not all the locations indicated are where the film says. The prologue, set in 1912, was shot between the Arches National Park in Utah, Colorado (the scene where Indiana races off on horseback) and New Mexico, where the train is transporting a circus. Later in the film, the United States offers another location as San Francisco where the zeppelin is boarded.
Jumping ahead to 1938, Indy is off the Portuguese coast (actually London’s Elstree Studios where all the interiors were built). England is the setting for the home of Henry Jones Sr. (in London) and for the American university where Indiana Jones teaches (Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire), while the building in Berlin where the Nazis burn books is actually Blenheim Palace in Woodstock. The Castle of Brunwald, which borders Austria and Germany in the film, is the Castle of Bürresheim in Rhineland. Spain is also present, with the Sierra de Huetor (Granada) where the characters decide whether to go to Berlin or Venice; the station of Guadix, Iskenderun in the film, near Granada; the dried-up riverbed in the desert of Tabernas, in the South, which is the setting for the tank chase and the aerial scenes, shot in Andalusia. The Temple of Alessandretta is actually the Treasury of the Pharaoh in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, considered one of the Seven wonders of the modern world.
Italy also has a look in. Jones goes to Venice in search of a carved inscription on a sarcophagus in the catacombs of a library located in a deconsecrated church. In the film it is called Biblioteca Marciana but the facade is that of the Church of St. Barnabas. A view over the city from above shows us the library, although the interiors were built in a studio.
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Denholm Elliott, Harrison Ford, Alison Doody – Venice
Paramount Pictures, Lucasfilm
In 1938, Indiana Jones is fighting the Nazis who have kidnapped his father, Professor Henry Jones Sr., while he was searching for the Holy Grail.
