[Lee Stewart]

It might be easy to imagine shooting a movie as something of a luxury. But according to producer Frank Marshall, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first Indiana Jones film, was shot in “Tunisia, in 130 degrees for six weeks and we had three days left. We were supposed to shoot this huge fight between the whip and the sword.”

The previous nearly month and a half of filming seemed to have taken its toll on the film’s star, Harrison Ford. Rather than spend an additional three days shooting yet another physical fight scene, Ford simply pulled out his prop gun and pretended to shoot his adversary. As Marshall described it, “After lunch we did three shots…and it’s the biggest moment of the movie.”