New, Improved Indy

“It’s been a rough week.”

Harrison Ford was looking the worse for wear--a bloody scar on his left temple, bruised and raw knuckles, dust-covered tattered clothes. And, of course, that wretched hat. He was outside Set 6 at Elstree Studios, where the $28-million “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” is in production, with Steven Spielberg again directing.

Ford tells us that this “Indy” has “a new dimension” thanks to Sean Connery, who’s along as “dad” Henry Jones. Like son, he’s a professor of archeology. With a battered hat!

“(Indy) is no longer a cardboard cut-out cavalier, but a real three-dimensional guy,” Ford insists. “He has an important relationship with his father, and this gives him a background, a past, as well as a future.”

Spielberg’s up to his old tricks: There’ll be another scene-stealing fight/chase, atop a runaway tank (“one of the hairiest stunts I’ve ever been involved in,” said Ford) . . . a massive set piece--a temple of gold and silver--which will explode in the finale . . . and a big battle in which Ford, Connery and Denholm Elliott--who returns from Indy I--square off against armies of Nazis and Turks.