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Secret of the Incas
1954 · Film · 100 min
Directed by Jerry Hopper
Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.
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Whats funny is the look of Indiana Jones was borrowed from the 1954 film Secret of the Incas.
Definitely a missed opportunity that the article didn't discuss that obviously-derivative borrowing has been happening a lot longer than ML image generation has been around. And that borrowing is OK! Indiana Jones' appearance is very obviously based directly on Charlton Heston's character in Secret of the Incas, but the Spielberg/Lucas films are objectively better in every way than that source material.
> I don’t know…the actual inspirations for Indiana Jones, like Allan Quatermain from H. Rider Haggard's novels, "King Solomon's Mines", and the real life Roy Chapman Andrews, who led expeditions to Mongolia and China in the 1920s and wore a fedora.
The actual inspiration for Indy was protagonist Harry Steele from the movie The Secret of the Incas (1954). Filmed on location in Cusco and Machu Picchu, before they became popular tourist destinations, the movie also had scenes and elements that made it into Raiders of the Lost Ark.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_the_Incas
The movie's available on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TS7Fabyolw
A lot more info: http://www.theraider.net/information/influences/secret_of_incas.php
(And listen out for the astonishing voice of Yma Sumac!)
It borrowed hugely from a 1950s movie, Secret of the Incas
Earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28151759
Hah, and not a mention of the movie from which they 'borrowed' so much, Secret of the Incas!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_the_Incas
One of the most famous scenes - positioning the artifact at just the right moment to reflect the rays of sun to reveal... - straight out of the 1954 movie.
Secret of the Incas was filmed on location in Cusco, before it was a tourist destination. The city is raw, colorful, a snapshot in time. The script is full of humorous sarcasm, with an interesting (but fairly slow) story, based in fact.
As for Charlton Heston's character? The prototype for Indiana Jones: fedora hat, leather jacket, pistol, mannerisms...
The full movie is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OYQD24HrNlU
You should have written more!
For those who don't know, Secret of the Incas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_the_Incas) was the inspiration for Indiana Jones. It's a fantastic adventure movie, with some great dialog, and set in pre-tourism Cuzco - all in Technicolor!
Definitely worth watching, for its own merits alone.
I've never seen Secret of the Incas before! What a fascinating movie - especially as such a clear inspiration for Raiders of the Lost Ark.