Sallah is a fictional character in the Indiana Jones trilogy. Played by John Rhys-Davies, he appears in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In addition, he also appears in the preshow video in the Disneyland attraction Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye and voices the safety spiels in the attraction. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... John Rhys-Davies (born May 5, 1944) is a Welsh actor. ... Raiders of the Lost Ark, also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, is a 1981 adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. ... Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, Alison Doody, River Phoenix and John Rhys-Davies. ...

An old friend of Indiana Jones, Sallah is a portly Arab living in Cairo. While his profession is never explicitly told in the films, Ford's character calls him "the best digger in Egypt", and he does help the Nazis in an archaeological dig, so it can be assumed he is a professional excavator. He has many children and several connections in Cairo, even with the local pirate traders, such as Captain Katanga. National Socialism redirects here. ... Excavation is the best-known and most commonly used technique within the science of archaeology. ...

Sallah is also prone to breaking into song when he becomes excited.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Sallah helps Jones decipher the inscription on the back of Marion Ravenwood's medallion by taking him to an old wise man. They learn that the Nazis are digging in the wrong location for the Ark of the Covenant, so Sallah and Jones infiltrate the Nazi dig and they discover the real location of the Well of Souls, where the Ark is kept. Although he is reluctant, Sallah joins Jones in the snake-infested tomb, and they find and move the Ark to the surface. Marion Ravenwood is a fictional character from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark. ... A late 19th-century artists conception of the Ark of the Covenant, employing a Renaissance cassone for the Ark and cherubim as latter-day Christian angels The Ark of the Covenant (ארון הברית in Hebrew: aron habrit) is described in the Hebrew Bible as a sacred container, wherein rested the stone... Well of Souls can mean several things: 1. ...

However, the Nazis discover the secret dig and capture the Ark and Sallah. They also throw Marion into the tomb with Jones, and seal it shut. Jones and Marion escape, however, and he tells Sallah to secure some transportation back the United States. He makes a deal with the captain of the Bantu Wind, a tramp steamer, for bringing Jones, Marion, and the Ark back to the States. A tramp steamer, or tramp for short, is any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call. ...

Deleted scenes

There are two deleted scenes featuring Sallah. One is an extension of the scene where Sallah loses the rope into the map room, after two Nazi soldiers demand help from him in freeing their truck from the sand. The entire scene also involved several Nazi soldiers demanding to be served water, while Sallah panics and spills water on their uniforms. The scene was supposed to have smoke in the background, but tires used in the scene made it too dark. Spielberg just cut the scene in order to not have to use half a day reshooting it.

The other scene depicted Sallah's fate after Jones and Marion's entrapment in the Well of Souls. The Germans decide to execute Sallah, but a young soldier put in charge of the operation has second thoughts. The scene was cut for length issues.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

In Last Crusade, Sallah fails in rescuing Marcus Brody from the Nazis, who captured him for the map that leads to the Holy Grail. Sallah takes Jones and his father, Henry Jones Sr. to the Nazi convoy. He later secures some camels for the trip back home, although Indy told him horses. It's revealed that Sallah has a brother-in-law after the Nazis blow up his brother-in-law's car. He captures camels instead of horses for compensation. Marcus Brody is a fictional character appearing in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. ... For historical artifacts associated with the cup of the Last Supper, see Holy Chalice. ... Professor Henry Jones, Sr. ... Species Camelus bactrianus Camelus dromedarius Camels are even-toed ungulates in the genus Camelus. ...

Deleted scenes

There were two other scenes featuring Sallah cut from the finished film. During the scene where Sallah fends off the German kidnappers, he hits a camel which spits mucus over the Nazis, and another shot with Sallah fighting the Nazis. The other depicts Indy and his father meeting Sallah at the İskenderun train station. It was deleted because of showing a minor transitional plot element. Ä°skenderun panorama Ä°skenderun (formerly known in the west as Alexandretta, from Greek Ἀλεξανδρέττα; in Arabic الإسكندرون, al-Skanderoon) [Alexandrette in French] is a district and its center in the Turkish province of Hatay. ... Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street station in 1865. ...