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The film follows one night in the lives of several recently graduated high school students. The genial Steve (Ron Howard) prepares to leave for college the next day, and Laurie (Cindy Williams), his girlfriend, is upset by his impending departure. Laurie's brother, Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), the class intellectual, is also slated for college, but he has serious doubts about his future.
Also included here are the hopeless nerd (Charles Martin Smith) and the eternally cool drag racer, John (Paul LeMat), who feels pressure to live up to his reputation.
But it was the role of Han Solo in Lucas' Star Wars trilogy A New Hope (1977), The Empire Strikes back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983).
The original series of movies became one of the most successful franchises grossing almost $2 billion.
In between filming Star Wars he began a second movie franchise with Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones.
Indy is a respected archaeologist and professor at a college in New England. But Jones is pitted against the Nazis as they try to discover the location of the ark of the Covenant, which is believed to contain the Ten Commandments, in a bid to make their army invincible.
Temple of Doom was a prequel to Raider of the Lost Ark set in 1935. Jones is searching for three mystical stones that have been stolen from an Indian village.
During the search he stumbles across a dangerous cult that are using children as slaves.
The Holy Grail was nest on the agenda for the professor in 1989's The Last Crusade. Jones is forced to in search of the cup of Christ after his father Dr. Henry Jones Sr, played by Sean Connery, is kidnapped whilst pursuing his life long dream of finding the Grail.
Once again Indy faces the Nazi's, who are also searching for the Grail, as he retraces his father's steps in a bid to rescue him.
The three movies Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade made Indiana Jones a cinematic icon as well as cementing Ford as a leading man.
1982 also brought another iconic character for Ford as Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's sci-fi thriller Blade Runner.
The Los Angeles of 2019 is a dark, polluted, overcrowded dystopia dominated by cloud-piercing buildings and looming neon billboards, the air dense with acid rain and flying traffic.
World-weary Deckard has been called out of retirement to liquidate four escaped "replicants"--genetically derived androids of great strength, intelligence, and nearly-human emotion who serve as slaves and prostitutes in the off-planet colonies.
Led by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), they've come to Los Angeles to confront their designer, Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel), with their unhappiness about the brevity of their four-year life span.
In the course of his search, Deckard becomes romantically entwined with Tyrell's lovely assistant, Rachael (Sean Young), and must eventually confront Batty in an unforgettable rain-soaked sequence.
1985's Witness, directed by Peter Weir, secured Ford his first Best Actor Academy Award nomination.
John Book (Harrison Ford), is a Philadelphia cop whose life is altered while trying to help Rachel (Kelly McGillis), an Amish woman, and her son Samuel (Lukas Haas), who witnesses a murder in a Philadelphia train station bathroom.
After discovering that the murder was committed by a member of his force, Book travels to Lancaster County with Rachel and Samuel and poses as a member of the Amish community to hide from his murderous police peers.
While there, love blooms between Rachel and Book, and he finds himself drawn in by the honesty and simplicity of the old-world Amish lifestyle.
Peter Weir was nominated for Best Director and the film received a Best Picture nod it did go on to win Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing.
Ford has worked sparsely over the last few years appearing in a handful of movies including What lies Beneath, Firewall and Hollywood Homicide.
This week sees him return with his leather jacket and wide brimmed fedora in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The newest Indiana Jones adventure begins in the desert Southwest in 1957, the height of the Cold War.
Indy and his sidekick Mac (Ray Winstone) have barely escaped a close scrape with nefarious Soviet agents on a remote airfield.
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