the picture was a respectable hit & earned on top USD$114 million worldwide in box-office receipts and $36 million inside videos rentals.

This film launched Turner to stardom & reintroduced Douglas to the limelight as a capable leading human.

Tagline: ''She's a girl fron the large city. He's the reckless soldier of fortune. For the fabulous treasure, it the part an dangerous undertaking there are no a single can believe...or even subsist.''

Plot summary
Romance novelist Joan Wilder (Turner) receives a unknown pack from either either her dead brother-around-law from Colombia. Before long afterward, she gets the frantic call for from either her sister telling her she has been kidnapped and needs a map from either a pack when a ransom.

In haste flying down to Colombia from either New York, Wilder gets lost along her way to her destination, Cartagena. Finally she diarrhea into swashbuckling opportunist Jack T. Colten (Douglas). Reciprocally for helping her call for her way to Cartagena, Wilder promises Colten United states$375 around traveler's checks.

Along a way, Colten discovers Wilder's map. He seeks to convince her to last fallowing a treasure which a map leads to. Wilder is reluctant to clean soh, however, when it get lovers, she relents & agrees to last fallowing a prize, whatever it turns dead set become (a map doesn't specify). It cause it potty retrieve a treasure in their way to providing a map to her sister's capturer.

When a select few touch-and-go tracking, it at length locate a treasure which turns bent on become an tremendous emerald (about Centred millimeter or even the size of a baseball), known as El Corazon or "The Heart". Unbeknown to the babies, when you took their completely risky venture, it is tracked by the homicidal tyrant known as Zolo.

Wilder & Colten at length develop separated, however agree to meet at Wilder's hotel in Cartagena. Colten doesn't indicate higher, which troubles Wilder since he possesses a gem.

She meets higher by having her sister's kindappers & turns above a map. Their meeting & her sisters' release is interrupted by Zolo, world health organization knows a map is at present slimy. Zolo's men develop Colten, however he has refused to disclose a location of El Corazon. When a select few brutal convincing (Zolo threatens to feed Wilder to the omnipresent crocodiles), Colten hands on top a gem.

At the moment Zolo obtains El Corazon, his h& (& a gem) is bitten off by one of a crocs and a shootout breaks out between Zolo's personal army & a abductor's men. This allows Wilder & her sister & Colten to escape. Colten tracks a h&-eating croc, when Wilder and her sister upright try for away.

Yet ham-handed Zolo catches higher by owning Wilder bent killing her. Inside hearing of Colten, Wilder pleads for his serve. He must decide whether to save her or even hang on to onto a croc which has ingested El Corazon. He decides to try to save Wilder by scaling the rock wall (to her location). Still, he arrives moments when Zolo dies inadvertently by his have hand (kinda—he lessens into the pit good of crocodiles). Colten leaves Wilder on text, apparently finding to keep away from a dog-wrangle sustaining the local police.

Wilder comes back at home to Future York, supplementary affirmative, though loveless forswearing Colten. She churns out an understood hit novel according to her recent case. Giving personal 1 day, she finds Colten waiting for her within the sailboat he purchased after recovering El Corazon. These are implied it sail in the world together.

Sequel
This flick was followed per 1985 The Jewel of the Nile featuring the equivalent starring cast. Though it performed respectably, its profits didn't match that of the original. Another sequel known as Crimson Eagle was planned however never had retiring a development stages.

Trivia
This Indiana Jones-inspired hit sparked a whole slew of similar risky venture motion-picture show of varying quality. None did also when this film. the script for the moving-picture show was written by a Malibu waitress. Due to a real-life threat of snatch around Colombia, the flick was filmed around Mexico. In a film, whilst actor Danny Devito is in the cave & pointing the gun retired the heroes he tells the babies to move out prior to Batman shows up. Danny would last onto to co-star in the film Batman Returns.