9 Movie Sets Recycled In Other Movies

8. Das Boot Becomes Raiders Of The Lost Ark

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You know what's a little bit silly when making a movie that you know is going to feature a submarine? Not having a submarine lined up by the time it comes to shoot scenes involving the submarine exterior.

Bizarrely, that was exactly that case with Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Raiders was due to shoot these moments at La Rochelle, France, yet the penny suddenly dropped that the production didn't actually have a sub on hand to film with. Coming to the rescue, was Das Boot.

Wolfgang Petersen's movie just so happened to be filming at the same location at the same time, and so Spielberg's crew were able to persuade Petersen to let them borrow the Das Boot submarine for those Raiders shots - all likely with the promise of "Don't worry, Wolfie, we'll take dead good care of the sub, honest."

When the Wurrfler submarine was returned to the Das Boot set, wouldn't you know it, but the sub was a mess. So much so, it actually fell apart and sank.

Luckily for Petersen and his movie, enough of the submarine was salvaged in order to complete the filming of Das Boot.

As another interesting Raiders fact, the film's Golden Idol trinket would be reused in Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams.

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