20 Things You Somehow Missed In Raiders Of The Lost Ark

4. Anthony Higgins

Raiders of the Lost Ark Harrison Ford
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It's funny how, in both of the Indiana Jones films to feature Nazis, Hitler's stooges provide some of the threat and most of muscle, but the actual main villains are French and American respectively.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, it is very easy to miss Anthony Higgins, who portrays Major Gobler, chief lieutenant of Colonel Dietrich, who has been put in charge of the mission to recover the Ark of the Covenant. He spends some time being evil with Belloq and Dietrich at Tanis, but by far his most memorable contribution is his death scene. His character bites the dust when Indy uses a truck to shove Gobler's troop car off of a cliff during the Nazis' escape from Tanis.

Fans of the many films that Steven Spielberg distinctively produced but did not actually direct during the 1980s will likely recognise Higgins as Professor Rathe in Barry Levinson's 1985 film, Young Sherlock Holmes.

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