Now playing: Indiana “Junior” Jones and Prof. Henry Jones

If there’s one thing that upsets Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones more than snakes, it’s probably being called Junior or Henry by his dear old dad, played to impish perfection by a white-bearded Sean Connery in 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The bickering affection is what makes the relationship between these two head-strong grown men so priceless. When Indy explains ruefully that he ran away from home as a teenager because his dad didn’t even talk to him until he was 16, his father retorts: “You were just getting interesting.”

The Last Crusade came out in 1989, the same year that Evel Knievel watched Robbie do his lunatic motorbike jump at Caesars, and by an odd coincidence, the movie also included a high-speed motorcycle sequence. Unlike Evel, however, Prof. Jones got to ride in a sidecar, at times enjoying the high-octane chase with the tweedy nonchalance of a dignified codger out for a Sunday drive. Best moment: when dad’s expression goes from quizzical to impressed as Indy breaks off a pointy pole and uses it as a lance to “unhorse” their Nazi enemy from his motorcycle.

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