Funny thing about that scene. The screenwriters had a complicated sword fight written in, but Harrison Ford was ill so the script was changed to Indy shooting the swordsman.
Didn’t know that. The expression on his face was not acting. It worked better anyways.
as I recall from an interview with the director a long time ago, Ford was supposed to use the whip to take the sword from the guy...after a whole lot of takes where he couldn’t do it he got exasperated and just shot him as a joke...the director loved it and kept it in