Ford stars as Indiana Jones, an unconventional archeologist, who is assigned by the U.S. Government to find the mystically empowered Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain it for their own evil use.

Indiana Jones, his sidekick Short Round, and nightclub singer Willie Scott go from high-flying action above the Himalayas to a nail-biting runaway mine car chase and finally a spine-tingling escape from a fortress-like mine in India while on the trail of a sacred stone.

Indy's Nazi enemies are back and have kidnapped his father, Professor Henry Jones, Sr. to get help in their search for the Holy Grail. Following a trail from America to Venice to the deserts of the Middle East, it's up to Indy to save his father, save the Grail and save the day.

Ordered by the British to leave an expedition in Greece in the spring of 1941, Indiana Jones put the archaeologists on a landing craft but remains behind to find the artifacts of the burial vault before the Germans find them.

When Henry "Indiana" Walton Jones Jr. PhD isn't teaching archaeology at Barnett College, he is searching for adventure and ancient treasure. His amazing finds are wanted by many, and Indy will do whatever it takes to keep them from falling into evil hands.