indiana jones and the last crusade imdb cast

While Jones was showering, Schneider searched his room, leaving it a mess, then also trashed her own room, and pretended to draw a bath with the phonograph playing so Jones would not hear the ransacking. The two returned to their apartments to clean up. When they ended their fistfight before that boat was shredded by a freighter's propeller, they both jumped back into Schneider's boat and went to a dock where Kazim revealed Henry's location in captivity: Castle Brunwald. After their boat's engine was shot up, Indy jumped to another boat, and started attacking Kazim. In a communications misunderstanding, she steered their boat between two freighters being docked alongside each other, but managed to avoid being crushed. When their attackers boarded their boat, Schneider took the helm while Indy fought with the men.

Back on the piazza, the two were chased by more men from the Brotherhood, and they took a motorboat to escape. Jones' quick thinking saved Schneider, though a rat climbed in her hair, and they were able to find an exit via the sewers. Their discovery was threatened by an oil fire set by the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword. Passing through several chambers, they eventually found the flooded tomb of the knight and discovered that the knight's shield was the second marker. After realizing that the Knight's tomb was underneath the library, as it was a former church, Schneider accompanied Jones into the catacombs through a hole in the floor. In the library, she helped to ensure that the group would be unhindered by the library's closing. Schneider met Jones and Marcus Brody after they arrived in Venice, and guided them to the library where she had been working with Henry when he 'disappeared', receiving a flower that Indy stole from a street vendor. Following the loss of the elder Jones, Donovan to turned to Indiana Jones, Henry's son, for his unwitting assistance with the Nazi effort to recover the Grail.

Jones managed to send his research back home to the US but was captured by the Nazis and imprisoned at the Castle of Brunwald on the Austro-German border. However, it became apparent to Henry that Schneider was a Nazi agent when she said 'Mein Führer' in her sleep. Īs the pair worked together in Venice, Italy, in search of clues to the whereabouts of the Cup of Christ, Schneider seduced Henry. Unaware of the Nazi connection to the project, Jones was flown out to Berlin to meet with Schneider around 1938. In 1937, he met with Professor Henry Jones, Sr., an expert on Grail lore who had made extensive studies of the Grail in a diary compiled over many years, to acquire his services in finding the artifact. Walter Donovan, an American industrialist-turned Nazi sympathizer who had also aligned with Hitler as a means to an end took charge of financing the expedition. īy the decade's end, the Third Reich authorized an expedition to recover the Holy Grail. Willing to do anything to acquire the relic, she allied herself with the Nazis although she didn't share their ideology. By then, Schneider had become an art historian and developed an interest in searching for the fabled Holy Grail. In 1933, the Weimar Republic fell and the country was subsequently taken over by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party.

In 1932, Schneider won a silver medal in the 50-meter freestyle at that year's Olympic Games. Her obsession to acquire the Holy Grail for herself, however, would end up being her undoing.Įlsa Schneider shared her forename with her father's secretary. The Joneses eventually realized her true nature and recovered the diary from her at a Berlin bookburning rally.Īfterwards, Schneider accompanied Donovan and Nazi Colonel Ernst Vogel to the Republic of Hatay to find the Grail Temple where she betrayed Donovan and made him inadvertently commit suicide with a False Grail. You would have done the same.' Jones: ' I'm sorry you think so.' ―Elsa Schneider and Indiana Jones ĭoctor Elsa Schneider was an Austrian art historian and former Olympic swimmer who was recruited by the Nazis to find the Holy Grail in order to acquire immortality for the Third Reich leader Adolf Hitler.Īround 1938, Schneider was involved in a scheme with American industrialist Walter Donovan to extract information from professors Henry Walton Jones, Senior and Indiana Jones in order to discover the location of the Grail through the former's Grail Diary.

Indiana jones and the last crusade imdb cast