10 Movies That Had TWO Incredible Villains
3. René Belloq & Arnold Ernst Toht - Raiders Of The Lost Ark
The Indiana Jones franchise has delivered a number of highly compelling and memorable villains across its four movies to date, though only Raiders of the Lost Ark offered up two genuinely brilliant, unforgettable bad guys in the same movie.
On one hand there's Indiana Jones' (Harrison Ford) rival archaeologist René Belloq (Paul Freeman) - effectively an evil mirror of Indy whose greed has put him in league with the Nazis. What he lacks in physical stature he more than compensates for with his smarts and sheer cunning ruthlessness.
Yet by far the more unnerving of the two major villains is Gestapo agent Major Arnold Toht (Ronald Lacey) - perhaps the most stereotypically German-looking person who has ever lived, no matter that actor Ronald Lacey was actually English.
Nevertheless, Tohy leaks creepiness from his every pore, his voice, piercing eyes, and general physical mannerisms combining to make him a peerlessly skin-crawling bad guy.
That he gets one of the most badass, gnarly deaths in all of cinema history - having his face melted clean off his skull by the Ark of the Covenant - is just the icing on the cake.