Tank Chase Scene Last Crusade

While Sallah retreated with his pilfered camels (intended as compensation for the car the Nazis blew up), Jones rode his horse away as the tank broke off from the convoy and set after him. Observing the archaeologist from within, Vogel waited until the tank was closer before bellowing orders to fire the guns. As the convoy was passing, Donovan stood up in his car and ordered the soldiers to go and reinforce the tank; in response, the two Citroens and one of the Kubelwagens broke off from the main group and went to help the tank. Noticing the vehicles approaching gave Jones an idea and he proceeded to turn around as though trying to outflank the tank. Taking the bait, Vogel ordered the tank driver to turn the vehicle and upon doing so found the tank on a direct collision course with the Kubelwagen.

Managing to stagger over to the open hatch, Jones ordered his father to get out before Vogel dragged him back, causing him to drop his Luger into the tank where it landed in front of Henry. Managing to briefly free himself from the chain, Jones recovered in time to punch the knife-wielding soldier in the face, causing him to fall onto the moving treads and be crushed by the tank as he fell off. Inside the tank, Henry noticed the other Citroen coming up next to the tank and a soldier opened the tank's periscope to see what was going on, only to see Vogel slam the archaeologist's face against the periscope. Amused, the Periscope Soldier remarked on the Americans ability to fight as being akin to girls. Jones, apparently hearing this insulting remark, kicked the periscope with his foot and caused it to hit the soldier around the back of the head. Henry then used the distraction to grab the Luger his son had dropped, but his guard tried to stop him and they both fought over it before Henry squirted ink into the soldier's face with a fountain pen. As Brody remarked on the pen being mightier than the sword in this case, Henry quickly went over to the other side turret and fired it at the Citroen truck, blowing it up and killing all the soldiers. The explosion caused Vogel to release Jones, who was carried along on the treads and only avoided being crushed by rolling right off the tank and clinging onto the destroyed turret. Smiling sadistically, Vogel hit Jones with a spade in order to make him let go, but Jones's satchel became caught on the turret just as he did let go. To further complicate matters, Henry was still battling the soldier while the tank was heading right for a wall that would crush Jones. Anticipating this, Vogel ordered the driver to speed up just as the soldier finally managed to retrieve his Luger. Pausing to take a breath, he noticed Brody next to him but was unable to react before Brody struck him in the head with a spent shell cartridge. As he fell back, the soldier reflexively fired his gun and the ricocheting bullet struck the driver in the head. Just as Jones was about to be crushed against the wall, the driver's corpse slumped across the controls and the tank turned away from the wall, saving the archaeologist at the last possible moment.

Unaware that the tank was now heading for a sheer drop over a cliff, Jones was in the process of helping Brody and his father out of the tank when Vogel came back armed with the spade. Brody inquired as to how one got off the tank, only for Jones to provide an answer by accidentally knocking him off when grappling with Vogel. As Henry wondered where Brody had gone, Indy noticed Vogel about to hit him from behind (reflected in his father's glasses) and while he ducked it, Henry was knocked onto the treads, forcing Indy to lash him in order to avoid his death with his whip until an arriving Sallah was able to pull Henry to safety. Finally gaining the upper hand over Vogel, Indy proceeded to repeatedly slam the colonel's head against the turret until he finally noticed the cliff edge and made a scramble for safety as the tank went right over. Plummeting to the bottom of the cliff, with a screaming Vogel clinging to the turret, the tank crashed to the bottom and exploded, killing all the remaining Nazis on it. Initially thinking Indy had gone over with it, his father and friends silently mourned him until he appeared alive and well. After hugging his son in a brief moment of loss of self-control, Henry composed himself and rushed to the horses, ecstatic about being so close to the Grail.