30 Amazing Publicity Shots of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones on the Set of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981)

There was a time when George Lucas made it his personal mission to redeem the so-called "trash" of his childhood. You know, the stuff adults said would rot your brain - Saturday morning serials, cheesy space operas, jungle adventures with zero historical accuracy and 100 percent swagger. So what did Lucas do? He took Flash Gordon and gave us Star Wars. Then he took the dusty, danger-filled adventure films of the 30s and 40s and handed us Indiana Jones like some cinematic mic drop.

And sure, Steven Spielberg came in and Spielberg'd the whole thing - turning what could've been pure pulp into a masterclass in visual storytelling. And Harrison Ford? Well. Harrison Ford showed up with that perfectly disheveled charisma, looking like he'd just punched a Nazi and smirked about it. But make no mistake, this whole ride started in the imagination of a guy who loved the "trash" so much, he made the world fall in love with it too.

We could show you 30 photos of George Lucas hunched over a typewriter with a can of Tab. But let's be honest - you're here for peak Ford. So here he is, whip in hand, shirt unbuttoned, and legend mode fully activated.