Memorable movie hall experiences .....

The audience broke out into applause! I have never heard that kind of reaction -- neither before nor since.”

I, too, saw “Raiders” during its initial theater release and I and the audience I was in reacted the same way. As the years went by, though, I would sometimes wonder if my response to that causal killing was entirely appropriate. I even met some other people who had also laughed and applauded, then later felt a little queasy about it. Seeing it on video later, I noticed that when the swordsman was killed, the film’s people on the street also laugh and applaud so it might be that Indie had freed them from a street predator or gangster. Or – maybe I’m overthinking the whole thing.