Forty years after its release, Raiders of the Lost Ark remains a two-hour-long masterclass in how to stage an action sequence.
However, even in a movie full of punishing fistfights, thrilling shoot-outs, and daring escapes, there’s still one scene that stands above the rest: the truck chase.
A perfect blend of stunt work, editing, performances, and music, the truck chase set a bar that every Indiana Jones sequel – heck, that every action movie, period – has been trying to reach ever since.
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