Radical Retro Movie Review: “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
The Paramount Pictures mountaintop logo dissolves into an actual peak, in what appears to be the jungle. A dark figure in a fedora crosses in front of the camera with a group of men in tow. One of them, spooked by something he sees, runs screaming into the jungle. The man in the hat stops briefly to piece together a map. That’s when an on-screen prompt tells us that the year is 1936, and the location is South America.