What if 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' was actually made in the 1930s.

[kfung]

Short list of actors to play Indiana Jones:

Cary Grant
Humphrey Bogart
Clark Gable
Errol Flynn



Belloq:

Claude Rains


Any other casting suggestions?

[J M]

No.

What if Gone With The Wind was made in 2004? Rhett Butler played by Ben Affleck or Freddie Prinze Jnr?

[thescrounger]

Well Raiders is actually paying homage to the saturday action adventure serials that were made in the 1930s, so in essence if it were made in the 1930s it would feature B movie actors in the roles.

[Dear Mr Echo]

Originally posted by J M
No.

What if Gone With The Wind was made in 2004? Rhett Butler played by Ben Affleck or Freddie Prinze Jnr?

A scary thought for sure! Catherine Zeta Jones as Scarlet O'Hara! Shudder!

"As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again... isn't it boyo?"

[kfung]

Originally posted by thescrounger
Well Raiders is actually paying homage to the saturday action adventure serials that were made in the 1930s, so in essence if it were made in the 1930s it would feature B movie actors in the roles.

Yes, you are right!

Probably Buster Crabbe.

[Jojohns]

As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me.

mmmmm.......lick.........Catherine Zeta Jones...........mmmmmmmmmmm :norty:

[splobber]

You'd see a lot more hysterical women getting slapped.

[Hernster]

Originally posted by Dear Mr Echo
isn't it boyo?"


:lol:

[KRW]

More interesting would be to consider who the bad guys would be. The Nazis were fairly popular in the early thirties, so it would probably have been commies.

[Mike]

In a way it was made in the 1930s. "The Mask of Fu Manchu" has more than a few similarities to "Raiders" and is a much more entertaining film, at least in my opinion.

[jmoates]

Raiders might have been made as a serial by Universal if it had been conceived in the 1930s, so it wouldn't be one of yer bagain basement serials. I'd agree with Buster Crabbe as Indy; possibly Bruce Cabot (from King Kong) or Richard Dix. They might have played up the discarded Indy-as-playboy image and gone with somebody like William Powell. Bogart's career didn't really get going until the 1940s, so he'd be too late for the role.

Claude Rains might have been too young for Belloq, but Boris Karloff could have done it, with Lionel Atwill at Toht.

There's only one Marion Ravenwood - Faye Wray.