I caught a section of this movie on cable last night - specifically the ending, and there is an item, very much like the ending of Star Wars, A New Hope that troubles me.
Before I get to that I must note Raiders is one the all-time great action films. This is really a highlight of how to make a wide audience blockbuster with the simple formula - a great hero, easy-to-hate bad guys, excellent action sequences that are not purely driven by special effects, the "prize", and minimal use of foul language and bloody deaths.
So near the end, Belloq and the other Nazis have travelled to an unidentified island and decide to open the Ark before handing it over to Hitler. Oops, big mistake, the "angels of death" appear and wipe out all the bad guys. Here is the problem: exactly how did Indy and Marion get back to the US? I do not assume the 2 of them could have manned and driven the U-Boat by themselves. Was the German command on that island stupid enough to have every able bodied Nazi follow them the Ark ceremony only to be killed? No one was left to guard to the facilites?
All right - let's suspend the disbelief and just assume all the Nazis there died, while Indy and Marion found a radio and called for help and the Allies picked them up... still some holes there to be filled, but as with simple formula blockbusters, the good guys do always win, one way or another.
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