Secret of the Incas (1954)

[MRP]

So this movie was never on my radar until a week or so ago when I was watching a doc on the fedora and someone mentioned that Indiana Jones leather jacket and fedora look was taken straight from Charton Heston's character-Harry Steele's look in this movie, as well as other elements used in Raiders (a treasure who location is hidden in a map room that needs reflected sunlight to pinpoint it's location). I'm always up for a good adventure movie.

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and here's Charton Heston as Harry Steele.

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Now maybe I'm the last to hear of this, but I thought it was a pretty cool tidbit.

I enjoyed the movie overall. It's a fun adventure flick and one of the first movies ever shot on location in the ruins of Machu Picchu and in Peru overall. It has a lot to offer beyond the Indy connections, but I'm not sure I would have tracked it down if not for those connections.

-M

[Klosterheim]

That's a good movie.
I'm a fan of Charlton Heston.
(I noticed that someone must have brought out the weed eater before filming Ancient Aliens, Ha!, ha!)

[Jorge Galvan]

Gotta check this out, the similarities are too coincidental.

[sprytel]

Hiram Bingham was the real life American who "discovered" Machu Picchu, and his story and style is said to have inspired Secret of the Incas and later Indiana Jones.

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