Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of those films that will never be bettered. It's had so many imitators from Romancing the Stone and King Solomon's Mines to Italian rip offs such as Jungle Raiders and Ark of the Sun God and none have come even slightly close to replicating that film's classic greatness.
Somehow director Steven Spielberg and writers Lucas, Kasdan and Kaufman struck gold with exciting action and a witty script that both captured the imagination and filled the multiplexes. Like Star Wars and James Bond the film was surely a right time, right place phenomenon which has proved extremely tough to replicate even by it's own creators.
Raiders was the first video tape i ever owned, paying £25 for a Betamax copy. Money well spent as it's a film i've watched throughout my life and will always continue to do.
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