Venice boat chase scene Last Crusade HD
The first act of Last Crusade has a real lull when Indy goes to a library, stumbles upon an X-marks-the-spot cliché, and descends into the catacombs to find hints to the Holy Grail’s whereabouts. The dullness of this sequence is redeemed when Indy returns to the surface and gets into a speedboat chase with some assassins sworn to protect the Grail’s location.
Achieved using practical speedboat stunts, this sequence is a typically engaging Indy set-piece. The speedboats desperately try to make it through the narrowing gap between two giant ocean liners, and at the scene’s climax, Indy interrogates one of the assassins against the spinning rotors of a much larger ship’s propellor.