Give Ozarks Day: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

This FREE screening is part of our [Give Ozarks Day](https://giveozarks.org/2017/moxie) Celebration of Cinema. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) is the spectacular, cliff-hanger, breathlessly-paced, non-stop action/adventure film of the early 1980s. It was an immensely successful summer box-office hit. The film was conceived by producer George Lucas and directed by Steven Spielberg. [Significantly, this was the first full collaboration between the two legendary American film-makers.] This was the first of three Indiana Jones movies (and then a fourth film almost twenty years later) - created as a tribute (by Lucas) in wide-eyed homage to the episodic Saturday matinee, cliff-hanging thrillers, westerns, and adventure serials of yesteryear in the 1930s and 40s. [Filmsite.org] Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.