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New York City, 1938. In a high-rise art deco apartment, America's most intrepid archaeologist

is peering at a mysterious stone tablet found in the mountains north of Ankara.

Christen Symbol, early Latin text, mid-twelfth century I should think, and then almost

in disbelief he begins to translate the inscription.

Who drinks the water I shall give him, says the Lord, will have a spring inside him,

welling up for eternal life. Let them bring me to your holy mountain in the place where

you dwell, across the desert and through the mountain, to the canyon of the crescent moon,

to the temple where the cup that holds the blood of Jesus Christ resides forever.

The Holy Grail, Dr. Jones, says his host, the chalice used by Christ during the last supper,

the cup that caught his blood at the crucifixion and was entrusted to Joseph of Arimathea.

And so Tom Holland begins a heroes thrilling hunt for the Holy Grail in the film Indiana

Jones and the last crusade. Now you love the Holy Grail, Tom, do you?

I do love the Holy Grail. I love that film, it was my favourite. I know that your favourite is

the one of the first three in Newland Jones films, we're not covering the Temple of Doom,

but I, so last crusade was definitely my favourite and I think the reason for that is that I was

obsessed by the Holy Grail when I was a child. I had I read endlessly about it.

It's so much so that actually when I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail,

yeah, which for those few maybe who haven't seen it is a comedy and mocking the Arthurian legends,

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