The first Indiana Jones movie features many famous sequences from the opening fleeing a giant rolling rock to the Nazi melting faces when the Ark of the Covenant is opened.
Yet did you know that another particularly comic moment was not in the original script?
The scene in question was in the market where the swordsman shows off his skills, swishing his blade around in challenge to Harrison Ford’s adventurer.
Yet Indy simply takes out his pistol and shoots the man dead in a surprise move.
It turns out that Ford was supposed to use his whip to get the sword from his enemy’s hands before taking him on. However, on the day, the star and the crew were suffering from food poisoning, so he wasn’t well enough to perform the stunt. After several unsuccessful attempts, Ford simply suggested “shooting the sucker”. Director Steven Spielberg took him up on the offer, and the rest is history.
