The Famous Indiana Jones Was Intentionally Based on Harry Steele.

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Indiana Jones  the famous movie hero played by Harrison Ford, but who the hell is Harry Steele?  Harry Steele is a character played by Charlton Henson in a movie titled Secret of The Incas. So, the famous Indiana Jones was just only a copy from another movie? Well let's find out.

The producer of Indiana Jones franchise  George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have always open about the fact that Indiana Jones franchise was inspired by serials of 1930's and 1940's. That's OK though, because Indy himself is an original creation. It's not like they'd just lift a character from another movie and turn him into one of the most iconic action heroes ever, or is it?

The Original: Secret of The Incas (1954).

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In the picture was young Charlton Henson as a cocky adventurer Harry Steele in a little-known 1954 film Secret of The Incas.

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Isn't he looked familiar? Yep, Indiana Jones also looked exactly like him right down to the stubble. Coincidence? Not according to the women who designed Indy's look in his first movie, Raiders of The Lost Ark. in an interview, she admitted that the crew watched Secret of The Incas several times and she surprised that Lucas and Spielberg didn't credit the movie at all.

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The similarities did not just stop there, in the Raiders there was a scene where Indy does reflected light trick to show location of the hidden ark, and guest what? Incas also have the exact same scene.

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In the same scene in Incas, Steele is betrayed by his partner, who tries to steal the valuable artifact he's just retrieved at gunpoint, but he's saved by his Peruvian sidekick. Raiders simply merged both characters into the same one for the film's classic opening scene, which, like Incas, takes place in a temple deep in the Peruvian jungle.

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Then there's the river trip in a yellow inflatable raft, like in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, followed by a campfire scene, also like in Temple of Doom.

So wait, this movie stars one of the best-known lead actors ever in what's basically an Indiana Jones premake,why isn't it better known? That might be because both movies are produced by Paramount, who has never bothered to release Incas on home video. Many fans, including Indy's costume designer, believe Paramount is just trying to hide the blatant ripoff.

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Of course, there could be another reason why they haven't released Incas: The main character is a huge douchebag. Indy isn't the most cheerful guy in the world, but at least he didn't con women out of their money, then brag about it in front of them.

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There's also the fact that the movie barely has any action, which Raiders compensated for by including all of the action.