Raiders of the Lost Ark - How Did That Truck Fall Over? Here's the Answer!
When Indy is in that Arabic (or whatever) village and that Nazi truck tips over onto those baskets look on the bottom of the truck, you can see an olive green plunger! Cool, no?
You are correct. The "plunger" is a piece of telephone pole, put into a mortar.
This metal pipe, with one end closed off, has an electrically fired explosive in it, when loaded with the telephone pole, and fired by the stunt driver, instant rollover!
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Garthie writes:
Good call! I wasn't sure I saw the plunger, but for a long time, I saw something fall out of the back of the truck, just before it tipped over.
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Pingpo writes:
An interesting fact about the truck rollover, so this may belong in trivia. The truck was actually supposed to fly into the air and land on its side. The filmmakers weren't sure it would work, so they went ahead and shot it and they were happy with it anyway. I saw this in a making of video about Raiders.
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