LOS ANGELES, May 20 (UPI) -- Karen Allen says she was thrilled when Hollywood film director Steven Spielberg asked her to appear in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."
Allen played feisty heroine Marion Ravenwood in the first Indiana Jones flick, 1981's "Raiders of the Lost Ark," but did not appear in the second and third installments of the franchise. She reprises her role of Marion in "Skull," due out in theaters Thursday.