10 Best Epic Hollywood Punch-Ups

Raiders is a catalogue of iconic set-pieces: from the snake filled horrors in the Well of Souls, the rolling boulder, the gun vs sabre duel and all those melty Nazi faces at the end. But Indy’s fight with the bald and burly bruiser of the Third Reich, seems to perfectly encapsulate all that’s perfect about this film.

The first (and, surely, best) instalment of the Indiana Jones series, Raiders of the Lost Ark is a showcase of director Steven Spielberg’s genius at crafting moments of malevolence while always retaining a wickedly comic undertone. With this classic fight scene delivering to perfection.

A brilliant scene which brings together all the ingredients for a classic adventure movie dust-up. Harrison Ford’s Indy is the embodiment of weary heroism; reluctantly climbing down from the plane wing to square off against the imposing foe, eager for a scrap. The scene plays out amid a precarious back-drop of gunfire, explosives, leaking petrol tanks and Nazis on trucks. While the fists fly and blood spatters beneath the forebodingly moving plane in which Marion is trapped. A plane with large, aggressively spinning propellors, that come gruesomely into play at the fight’s conclusion.