American adventure drama set in 1936 in which Harrison Ford stars as bullwhip-wielding archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones. Indy has been tasked with retrieving the Ark of the Covenant, which US intelligence believes contains the original Ten Commandments. The agents of Hitler are also on the trail, however, and it is up to Indy and his old flame Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) to get to the Ark first.