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The Chiesa di San Barnaba (only the exterior) was used as the set for an imaginary library. The interior of the church was actually filmed in London, at Elstree Studios, both the alleged library and the catacombs.
San Barnaba is really a church, but it hosts a da Vinci Museum
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Many... So many scenes that take place in or near airplanes were deleted from the final cut. Who knows why.
This was the first one, the flight of Jones and Brody from the USA to Europe. Anyway, Michael Khan still did an adorable edition of Indy studying his father's diary.
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After the conversation with Donovan, Indy and Marcus visit Henry's house, to verify that someone has been there, looking for what Indy has in his pocket: his father's grail diary. It is time to accept the adventure and fly to Venice, aboard Donovan's air freight, of course.
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After the sinking of the Coronado, Indy manages to bring the cross to Brody and the Barnett College. The school is Rickmansworth Masonic School, Chorleywood Road just a couple of minutes north of Rickmansworth Station. The school previously supplied interiors for RotLA.
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"You lost today, kid. But that doesn't mean you have to like it".
Last scene of River Phoenix and Richard Young in the prologue, and even the way of passing the hat matters.
Blood, sweat, dirt and deception. I can't imagine a better scene to start the real adventure.
Since we're talking about Last Crusade...
From time to time, a group of talented fans reminds us that the the hero of the whip and the hat is far beyond Hollywood blockbusters.
Indiana Jones. Return of Elsa Schneider, full fanfilm, English subtitles.
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Several thousand snakes of five breeds were used for the train scene, in addition to rubber ones onto which Phoenix could fall. The snakes would slither from their crates, requiring the crew to dig through sawdust after filming to find and return them.
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"... He then called up to the soundman on the roof and said, “I want to record this!”
I got my pic. And with that, we were done."
This anecdote and many of the pictures of the last days belong to the engineer Earl Knoob and was published in the magazine C&TS Dispatch, nº 4.
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"... “Oh, you mean like Amtrak or something?” “No, our passenger train has a steam locomotive just like this one, pulling passenger cars filled with people. It’s how we make our living.” “Wow, really?” he said... ”
C&TS Dispatch
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Although the relic was named after the fifteenth-century Spanish explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján, who led his army through present day Arizona and New Mexico in a fruitless search for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold, the cross itself was a fictional prop.