Mr Russell wrote:
I think Hitler would have realised the Ark's awesome power though, and only got the Jews to look inside.
The bastard.
He wouldn't have opened it - the opening in the desert was a test run, see. If he'd found it in the desert with all the nazis vanished he'd have been all "nein, das is nicht gut!" and "ich bin Adolf" and that'd be that.
I know German.
That bit where Indie stands around doing nothing while the Egyptians (?) do all the digging always bothered me, though. Apart from being un-heroically imperialistic, it's pretty dumb to drop his disguise just for comfort's sake when a bajillion nazis are just up the road.